Spanish Colonial Chest Design
Maker
Monica Sosaya Halford
(American, born 1931)
Date2014
Place madeSanta Fe, New Mexico, United States, North America
MediumCotton, wool, wood
Dimensions56 5/16 × 26 3/4 in. (143 × 68 cm)
ClassificationsTextile, Decorative
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, museum purchase, A.2015.4.1
Object numberA.2015.4.1
DescriptionSeven scenes, six of them of Spanish village and military life, are embroidered on an off-white cloth panel surrounded by a double-row frame of brown embroidered lines. The panels are multi-colored and each has colored flowers on stems with leaves worked around the humans and animals. 1st scene: Two men and a woman in a carriage; 2nd: A woman and a man with a guitar; 3rd: Two women on opposite shores, and eight men on a boat; 4th: Two men on horseback, stylized buildings, and four men grouped together, 5th: Two boats, one holding two men, and another holding three, 6th: Two horses, one with a rider, 7th: Three lions. Wood rod inserted through the top for hanging.On View
Not on view
c. 1960
1999
Artist unrecorded
