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Handcrafted Hooked Rug with Large Floral Bouquet & Joined Hearts
Public Domain

Colwill and McGehee

Handcrafted Hooked Rug with Large Floral Bouquet & Joined Hearts

1839

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Colwill and McGehee

Handcrafted Hooked Rug with Large Floral Bouquet & Joined Hearts

1839

Physical Qualities Wool pile, jute ground, 56 1/2 x 91 3/4 in. (143.5 x 233 cm.)
Credit Line Jean and Sidney Silber Collection, Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number 2016.175
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2016, Jean and Sidney Silber, Baltimore, by purchase from Colwill and McGehee, Baltimore, 1990
The Magazine Antiques. September 1990, Colwill McGehee advertisement, "Sophisticated Country," Baltimore, Maryland, p.395, this rug featured above dresser.

Inscribed: Worked in looped wool within ribbon between hearts at center bottom border: "C.C.--A.E.S."

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