1945 - 1955 Anna Glazer's Modernist Pillow Sham
1945 - 1955 Anna Glazer's Modernist Pillow Sham
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- Description
- An oblong pillow sham that matches the bedspread (.1) made of gathered half circles of rayon taffeta, machine sewn in patterns to a cotton ground. Colors are burgundy, purple, pink, brown, terra cotta, blue, teal. The center panel is patterned with a rosette of gathered hlaf circles. with four corner rosettes. The edges are finished with teal cording and blue medallions. The back is plain burgundy taffeta. 37.5" x 15.75" Made by Anna Glazer, Bronx, NY, in the 1940s-early 1950s. Her daughter remembered it taking her mother a LONG time to complete.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pillow sham
- maker
- Stecher, Anna Glazer
- ID Number
- 2017.0137.2
- catalog number
- 2017.0137.02
- accession number
- 2017.0137
- Credit Line
- Gift of the grandchildren of Anna Glazer: Laurie Sevret, Mitch Hakoun, Martin Stecher, David Stecher
- subject
- Quilting
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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