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Whitework sampler
English, mid-17th century
Britain
65 x 21.2 cm (25 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Linen plain weave embroidered with linen
Classification: TextilesObject is currently not on viewUnfinished whitework sampler, now backed with orange silk.
Ground: colored linen. Design: ten horizontal bands of geometric ornament in drawn-work and cut-work, and one band at the bottom in punto in area with two figures in a landscape (Annunciation? Cupid pointing an arrow at a woman?). Stitches: double hem; cut work including buttonhole, buttonhole picot, knotted buttonhole. Similar design dated 1643 (Ashton, Samplers, fig. 9). Linen is fringed across bottom. Museum of Fine Arts, BostonGift of Philip Lehman in memory of his wife Carrie L. Lehman, 1938
Accession number: 38.1153Provenance/Ownership History: Gift of Philip Lehman to MFA, 1938
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