IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110443
accession number:	T.5-1982

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 2 December 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Linen border or valance made of two joined pieces.  Embroidered in red silk in long-armed cross stitch.  A large repeat pattern of a flowering branch with confronting birds is worked between borders of a repeated stylized flower or plant motif.  The top and bottom edges are finished with a complex buttonhole or needle lace border.
title:	border or valance

NOTES
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type: history note
value: from the collection of Sir Arthur Evans


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: given by Dr Gertrude Caton-Thompson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110443





TECHNIQUES
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Linen border or valance made of two joined pieces.  Embroidered in red silk in long-armed cross stitch.  A large repeat pattern of a flowering branch with confronting birds is worked between borders of a repeated stylized flower or plant motif.  The top and bottom edges are finished with a complex buttonhole or needle lace border.
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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creation date:	1701 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1701
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	18th Century-19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 183



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Embroideries from Epirus and the Greek islands
CITATIONS
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Embroideries from Epirus and the Greek islands
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