Rectangular-shaped cotton pillowcase with an opening at the bottom edge. The selvedges have been sewn edge to edge. Some areas of the single panel of decoration are in poor condition. The decoration consists of a row of four-and-a-half broadleaved trees which have a blue and yellow tree canopy and white and dark blue trunks. These are executed in silks in pulled thread work. They flank a smaller triangular-shaped tree (?), worked in pink silk and metal-wrapped thread.
pillowcase; textile
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