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Woman's cap
American
around 1815
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Place of Manufacture: (fabric) probably India
Medium/Technique
Cotton plain weave (mull) with cotton embroidery and deflected warps or wefts (openwork)
Dimensions
30 x 25.5 cm (11 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Emily Welles Robbins (Mrs. Harry Pelham Robbins) and the Hon. Sumner Welles, in memory of Georgiana Welles Sargent
Accession Number49.955
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CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionWoman's embroidered mull cap with a puffed crown and chin pendants; embroidered in pattern of semicircular rows of eyelets around leafy sprigs with rows of small V-shaped motifs; embroidered circular piece at top of crown with gathered insertions of plain fabric between embroidered bands below; fine drawstring at nape of neck
ProvenanceInherited by Miss Georgiana Welles Sargent (born 1858) of New York City; Gift of Emily Welles Robbins (Mrs. Harry Pelham Robbins) and the Hon. Sumner Welles, in memory of Georgiana Welles Sargent, to MFA 1949