White eyelet, banded at top and bottom with smaller eyelet threaded with pink satin ribbon tying in bows; double ruffle hem with three horizontal tucks above scalloped eyelet edge.
base valances
cotton (textile)
eyelets (components)
silk (textile)
Hanging, Bed
Valance, Bed
Valance, Bed
Paper label printed in gold, pinned to top hem: 1. in frame ""AU BON MARCHE/COMPTOIR DES RUCHES"" 2. written in ink in script ""Solde/ 13 'YS(?)"" 3. written in pencil ""2E (?)""
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.5634
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