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Square cotton pot holder, with a pattern of concentric squares. There is a red border around the outside, followed by a narrower border of green and yellow. Inside this is a band of red and black triangles. The centre piece is a red square with embroidered decoration, in the form of a cross with fleur-de-lis style embellishments. The reverse is a plain piece of white cotton with a red border.
Label: White with black handwriting in ink.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
If you have any further information about objects in our collections or can suggest corrections to our information, please contact us: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk
