Pincushions

Artist Emma Leonard Metcalf 1842 - 1907

Dateca. 1865

Terms

Pincushions
Taffeta
Velvet
Beads
Concord (Massachusetts)

Dimensions7.61 × 15.23 × 20.31 cm (3 × 6 × 8 in.)

MarkingsLabel: "Gift of Alice Metcalf, Made by my Mother, Emma Leonard Metcalf - 1842-1907 - about 1865."

Credit LineGift of Miss Alice Metcalf (1940)

Object numberPER1163.1

DescriptionTop covered with wine colored velvet. In the center is a spray of roses, buds, forget-me-nots and leaves embroidered in opaque chalk-white beads and transparent crystal beads. Around edge is a border, 3 beads deep, of the opaque beads and fringe of looped strings of the opaque and crystal beads. Bottom covered with white taffeta. See Per1162.1 for correspondence.