Bed valance

Museum number:
7-6628
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070006628
Alternate number:
1130 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Bed valance. Linen, silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural, red, green, yellow and blue. Tree with birds, animals motives. Three widths sewn together. 66 inches by 53 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
GREEK IS.: Dodecanese
Culture or time period:
European
Materials:
Linen (material) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bed valances and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
length 66 inches and width 53 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bed valance, accession number 7-6628, described as Bed valance. Linen, silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural, red, green, yellow and blue. Tree with birds, animals motives. Three widths sewn together. 66 inches by 53 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bed valance, accession number 7-6628, described as Bed valance. Linen, silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural, red, green, yellow and blue. Tree with birds, animals motives. Three widths sewn together. 66 inches by 53 inches.

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