Blue cobalt toilet bottles. Opaque glass ball-topped stopper with gold dot on top. Flattish lip, long neck with foliate / berry painted design in white and orange. White wreath painted around shoulder with gold line band below.
Ironstone chamber pot with lid. Body and lid have high gloss blue surface with crane and flora design with a gilded band at the lip that is repeated just above the foot. Handle is white a rope design at top with gilded highlights. Chamber pot lid has a white cylindrical design with gilded highlights on the handle that is centered horizontally above the lid surface; two rope designs serve as stems that wrap around the handle at opposite of the cylinder and attach it to the lid with gilded highlights. Surface of lid features crane and flora decor.
White linen towel in jacquard weave. Gold/orange patten at borders and hand knotted 5in fringe. Short edges are embroidered in orange with three bands: .25in wide with dots, 2.5in wide with leaves and circles, .75in wide withbands of orange dots.Monogrammed 'B'.
White with blue transfer print. Floral border. Large flowers: tulip and poppies. Pastoral picture on bottom of bowl. Pitchers has pictures of tress, bushes, groups of deer, three long-horned cows, Georgian mansion with brick wall, boy fishing.
White ground with mauve transfer print design. Pitcher has eight facets around body and foot, wide flaring mouth. Handles has thumb rest. Grape vine around inside and outside lip on the pitcher
**Accessioned twice** also see 27.4 Five piece dresser set. Two candlesticks (61.8.4-5, *see also 00.27.4-5*) -Bright pink candlesticks. Has border effect at bottom (approximately 0.5' white) that is off-white with gold design. Similar strip effect near
Porcelain octagon-shaped dresser tray that is part of a five-piece set. Face of tray is pink with a centered white circle with gold leaf decor. Edge of tray is white with a band of gold leaf design.
Porcelain cosmetics jar that is part of a five-piece dresser set. The jar has an overall squat oval shape. The exterior lip has a wide white band with a centered narrow gold leaf band. The remainder of the body, below the white band is pink.
The lid to the jar is capped with a ball-shaped pink handle. Below the handle is a wide white band with a wreath of gold leaves is bordered by a wide pink band that has a wide white band situated around the rim of the lid. This white band features a narrow band of gold arrows and dots.
Ecru damask (woven diamond chain design) hand towel. 1/4-inch hand-stitched hem on 3 sides. One long side is unhemmed selvedge. White cotton tape folded in half lengthwise, stitched to top reverse at both corners to create hanging tab loops, with 5/8-inch space at base.
White homespun (?) linen hand towel. Macremaed fringe. Three drawnwork bands from 3.5in to 9.5in from bottom of towel. Red thread wraps wefts in narrow drawnwork. on other bands straight stitch chicken tracks in red separate groups of threads. Decorated with red cotton thread feather stitching. Narrow hems on length. Tangled fringe, feather stitches fraying.
02/22: White cotton length.Top is selvedge, 2 sides finished with hand-stitched rolled 1/8-inch hem. Bottom finished with knotted fringe, 5 inches long. 3 bands of drawn work (1/4",1/2" & 1/2") cross the towel (9 1/2", 6 1/2" & 3 1/2" from bottom). Red thread wraps bundles on narrow band. On 2 wider bands, straight stitch chicken tracks in red separate groups of threads.
White homespun linen hand towel. 2 rows of drawn-thread work, one 3/4" wide, another 3/8" wide. 16-thread bundles, twisted by central thread woven alternately under and over groups of 8 threads.
1/4-inch hand-sewn hems on three sides. On lower edge, there is a self fringe, some threads are 3 inches long.
White fringed homespun linen hand towel. 3 rows of drawn-thread work: 7 3/4", 5 1/4" and 3" from lower edge. 1st and 3rd (3/8-inch wide) are 16-thread bundles twisted by a central thread woven alternately under and over groups of 8 thread. 2nd (1/4" wide) has white thread wrapping 8 thread at bases, top and bottom to form 'V"s across width of towel.
1/4-inch hems on three sides. 3-inch self-fringe bound with white thread.
White hand towel. 3-inch fringes at both ends. 4-inch borders both ends. 5"x3" 'Mitin red & white cotton threads. Outline and satin stitches. Hand embroidered. Ecru cotton; crosswise, selvedge to selvedge, woven with oval chain pattern. 5 inches on both ends is a border of patterned bands of varying sizes, 3-inch fringes on both ends.
In center, 1/8 inch above the 5-inch border: 5 inches high x 3 inches wide, "M" is embroidered in white and red cotton threads. Outline and flower leaf embellishments in white (stem and satin stitches). Red satin stitch circles/dots embroidered in outline and flower centers. Same "M" on 84.34.2. These two are a pair--borders are different patterns.
Small dresser scarf. Ecru with two bands of woven stripes of tan and light brown. Band, 5/8 inches from end, composed of 7/8-inch wide center band with narrow woven stripe on both sides.
Lengthwise edges are selvedges. Width ends are 3-inch self-fringes bound with thread. .
Off-white linen damask hand towel. Jacquard weave. Grapeleaf border with carnation center. 3 borders: inner (1/8"), middle (2 1/2 "), outer (3/4"). Hand-knotted fringe at both ends. Double drawnwork pattern on both ends. Monogrammed 6-inch high 'A' in script. Hand embroidered with cotton thread. Area around monogram darkened.
