Coat of arms: Rufus Greene family coat of arms

Embroidered by: Katherine Greene Amory (American (Boston, Massachusetts), 1731–1777)
School of: Susanna Condy (American, 1686–1747)

American

1745

Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts

Medium/Technique Linen plain weave embroidered with silk, wool, and glass beads, and gilded wood frame with glass

Dimensions 88.2 x 87.3 x 6.7 cm (34 3/4 x 34 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Textile on the strainer: 47 x 50.8 x 1 cm (18 1/2 x 20 x 3/8)

Credit Line The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts

Accession Number39.243

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles

ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionGreene family coat of arms worked on linen in tent-stitch with silk and wool. Square panel, hung cornerwise, the ground worked with neutral green silk on which is a blue shield (worked with silk) with three stags or bucks worked in neutral brown wool, with lines of black shading and beads for eyes. The mantling is worked with red, cream, and blue wool and yellow silk. The helmet is worked with blue and white wool and yellow silk; the crest, a stag or buck's head, is worked with brown wool, with a bead eye. On a yellow silk scroll below the shield is the following inscription: "Ruf. Greene Kath Greene, 1745" Framed in ornate gold frame made by Boston cabinet maker, William Price (1684-1771) and embroidered under the tutelage of Susanna Condy (died 1747).

ProvenanceCollection of Maxim and Martha Karolik