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Asian Art
Towel of plain cloth, embroidered
19th century
Cotton
58 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (148 × 64.1 cm)
Gift of Mrs. F.M. Whitehouse
1939.502
Geography:
Turkey
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Turkish, Islamic
Period:
Ottoman period (1299–1922)
Classification:
Textiles
Provenance:
Mrs. F. M. Whitehouse (Mary Armour Whitehouse, 1868–1958), New York, by 1939 [note 1]; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1939
Note 1: Came from donor marked "Old Janina scarf from A.V.A."
Bibliography:
Loretta N Staples, A Sense of Pattern: Textile Masterworks from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981), 40, no. 35, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.