Flora's Retinue: Lily
Small square doily, fringed on all sides, with an ivory linen warp and violet silk weft. A figure of a woman dressed as a lily and holding a large lily, with the word LILY in the upper right corner, all in ivory on a violet ground. A set of six, the doilies would have been used on the table as part of a dessert service.
Credit: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund and through gift of Mrs. Edward Stern
c. 1891
Medium: linen warp, silk weft Technique: 4 & 1 satin damask
1994-28-1
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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