White cloth embroidered with a design of a tea pot, a tea caddy, another container and eight cups without handles in two blues, two greens, red, pink and yellow. A 2 1/4 inch floral border in the same colors on all four sides. A flowering plant in the same colors rises diagonally from each corner.
Credit: Museum Purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund
18th century
Medium: silk embroidery; linen ground Technique: stem, satin, roumanian and buttonhole embroidery stitches on plain weave
1997-44-1
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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