Cut Velvet Pillow
19th-20th century
Artists
Description
Mustard brown velvet pillow with design of foliate scrolls; striped mustard-yellow satin on back. One of a pair with 1943.1759.
Dimensions
35.5 x 51 x 14 cm (14 x 20 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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