table-cloth
- Museum number
- 2012,2025.44
- Description
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Square table-cloth made of finely woven white cotton. Corners and border have floral motifs in cutwork in white cotton thread.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 90 centimetres
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Width: 86 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The style of cutwork on this table-cloth is known as Richelieu which was, and continues to be used to decorate a range of domestic items for domestic use and sale in Madagascar (pers. comm. Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood 2021)..
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good. Some stains in central section.
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by the donors' parents, James and Marjorie Hardyman and their grandparents, Arnold and Laura Hardyman while working there as missionaries between 1915-1973.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2012,2025.44