Furniture Scarf

Dateca. 1940

MediumCotton embroidery thread on a cotton ground of 33 x 31 threads per inch

DimensionsOverall: 14 7/8 × 42in. (37.8 × 106.7cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Colin G. Campbell

Object number2019-132

DescriptionThis is a long rectangular furniture scarf consisting of isolated cross-stitched motifs worked in shades of blue, green, grey, brown, yellow, red, orange, white, and peach on a natural-color white cotton ground. Motifs include: candlesticks (4); baskets of fruit/flowers (8); stylized images of Colonial man (2); African-American colonial woman churning butter (2); horse-drawn carriage with coachman and footman (2); Colonial lady at Palace gate; Colonial woman standing at well; four groups of flowers; Governor's Palace, and Capitol. At top and bottom of scarf is the cross-stitched inscription: "COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG." The motifs are enclosed in an inner border of red cross stitches and an outer border of blue cross stiches.
Inscribed"COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG"
ProvenanceFrom Abby Aldrich Rockefeller To Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller Milton (1903-1976) to Abigail Rockefeller Milton O'Neill (b. 1928) and Steven and Barbara Rockefeller (son of Nelson Rockefeller) to Nancy and Colin Campbell, who gifted the placemats to CWF.