Cleveland Museum of Art

Embroidered handkerchief

Date

late 1800s

Medium

pineapple cloth: silk embroidery

Culture

Philippines

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This square handkerchief is made of piña fiber cloth in plain weave. All four edges are finished with a hand-embroidered cotton border of small repeating floral motifs. One corner bears the embroidered monogram “L. C. H.,” the initials of its first owner, Lilian Converse Hanna. Sallie Perkins (Mrs. Jacob B. Perkins) gifted this handkerchief to Lilian Converse Hanna (Mrs. S. Prentiss Baldwin) before the latter’s marriage in 1898.

The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.