AMERICAN DATED LINEN PLAIN-WEAVE HAND TOWEL / SHOW
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AMERICAN DATED LINEN PLAIN-WEAVE HAND TOWEL / SHOW TOWEL, with cotton cross-stitch and darning-stitch embroidery, fringe, tabs and darned panel, rectangular, the first panel having top selvage edge, side edges hemmed, and selvage bottom edge, the second panel having hemmed edges, there is a needlework insertion bins top panel with darned panel, the fringe panel is butted to darned panel; design is plain until the bottom where there is stylized tulip flower plant on base flanked by flowering plants, flanked by stylized flowery bud, above an embroidered name "Catherine Nase" and date "1842" with a cross centered in the name, and the darned panel with stylized tulip plant flanked by eight-pointed star flower plant on bases. Likely Pennsylvania. Dated 1842. 52" x 13 3/4" OA.
Very good condition overall with some uneven toning.
Provenance: From the Allentown Art Museum to benefit future acquisitions for the Museum's textile collection.
Very good condition overall with some uneven toning.
Provenance: From the Allentown Art Museum to benefit future acquisitions for the Museum's textile collection.
Condition
Very good condition overall with some uneven toning.
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AMERICAN DATED LINEN PLAIN-WEAVE HAND TOWEL / SHOW
Estimate $80 - $120
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