Original Owner
Catherine Livingston
Former owner
Katherine Van Rensselaer
Napkins (2)
1800-1830
Linen
Each (approx.): 31 1/2 × 38 × 1/8 in. (80 × 96.5 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of Miss Lucille de Luze Foley
1941.708ab
A handwritten note accompanying the napkins reads as follows: "from / Cousin Katherine / Van Rensselaer / of Rensselaer - Albany - / This Belonged to / Great,? Great? Grand Mother / Catherine Livingston / Napkins Initial in Corner / of it."
DescriptionTwo rectangular white linen damask napkins.Markingsembroidered: on corner of obverse (both "a" and "b"): "C L / 6"
handwritten in sepia: on corner of obverse (both "a" and "b"): "[illegible] Van Rensselaer"
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