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Conservation Status: After Treatment
Part of embroidered bedspread
Conservation Status: After Treatment

Part of embroidered bedspread

17th century
Object PlaceIndia
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain-weave with silk chain-stitch embroidery
DimensionsOverall: 81.9 x 347 cm (32 1/4 x 136 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession number54.28
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceProbably late 17th century, Earls of Ashburnham, Ashburnham Place, Battle, Sussex; 1924, by inheritance to Lady Catherine Ashburnham (b. 1890 - d. 1953), Ashburnham Place; July 7-9, 1953, Lady Ashburnham estate sale, Sotheby's, London (sale held on premises), to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; 1954, gift of the Victoria and Albert Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 14, 1954)
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