Embroidered Coat of Arms of the Clopton Family Maker: Mary Clapp Wooster (American, 1729–1807)
Maker, probably by: Misses Ann and Elizabeth Cummings School (American, 1768–1776)

1768–76

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Silk and metallic thread on silk

Dimensions

24 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (62.2 × 62.2 cm)

Credit Line

Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

Accession Number

2018.85.1

Geography

Probably made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Textiles

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Mary Clapp Wooster (1729–1807) thus by descent until donated to Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., prior to 1979; by transfer to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. New Haven, Conn., 2018
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2018), 8
  • Florence Mellows Montgomery, "Ceramics, Glass, and Textiles at Yale," Antiques 117, no. 6 (June 1980), 1332, fig. 7
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Subject

Women makers

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