Bed valance

Museum number:
7-6624
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1053 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Bed curtain. Linen, silk. Plain weave, embroidered, fringe sewn on. Light brown ground, red designs. Fringed. 12½ inches by 102 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
Crete, Aegean Islands, Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
GREEK IS.: Crete
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:
width 13 inches and length 102 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bed valance, accession number 7-6624, described as Bed curtain. Linen, silk. Plain weave, embroidered, fringe sewn on. Light brown ground, red designs. Fringed. 12½ inches by 102 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bed valance, accession number 7-6624, described as Bed curtain. Linen, silk. Plain weave, embroidered, fringe sewn on. Light brown ground, red designs. Fringed. 12½ inches by 102 inches.

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