1940.118: Tobacco Pouch
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.118
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Tobacco Pouch
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Greece, Crete
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230679
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Wool embroidery on cotton
- Technique
- Embroidery
- Dimensions
- 17.46 x 13.02 cm (6 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Miss Frances Elizabeth Bowles, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Frances Elizabeth Bowles
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.118
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Checkerboard arrangement of red and blue squares of embroidered stylized foliage (cross and back stitches) in wool on a cotton plain weave ground; design pattern is on the diagonal; linen woven band at opening; cord handles - 5 1/2 inch loops
Verification Level
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