A Bleak and Sheered Early Table Cover, New England, early-19th Century

cotton, wool, and felt

height 25 in. by width 39 in.

the oval mat with an outer border of brown and black squares of shirred fabric outlined in red and containing red and white dots, followed by an inner ring of undulating vines and berries on a brown cotton ground, and the center with a cat, a man sitting on a stool with a jumping dog, a large seated cat, a pig, two guinea fowl, two turkeys, and a guinea fowl in a tree

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