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  • Band (Greece), 17th century

    Fragment of border, cream linen ground embroidered in red, green, white and black silk. Highly stylized plant forms with birds and stags confronted. Narrow guard borders.

  • Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

    Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

  • Purse (Greece), 1920s

    Flat square purse with top snap opening and gilded metal chain for carrying, beige satin lining and fittings. Made from the sleeve of a peasant woman’s blouse of the 19th…

  • Spoon (Norway), 1804

    Round bowl engraved with zig-zag border enclosing fourteen petalled blossom in gilt. Short stem applied with ropetwist segment topped by bosse below squared and trellis pierced terminal fitted with silver…

  • Sample Book Page, Mural Scrolls, 1948

    Mural miniatures of large-scale wall decorations designed especially for silk screen reproduction by the artists Calder, Matisse, Matta and Miro. They are entitled respectively, “A Piece of My Workshop”, “Arbre…

  • Band (Greece), 18th–19th century

    Linen band embroidered with red silk with a repeating alternation of two patterns. One is a mermaid and the other a bird and cornucopia, each flipped both vertically and horizontally.…

  • Textile, 1940–49

    Sample of printed silk in shades of red, black for outlining and flecks of the white ground showing. Design is an allover flower pattern, perhaps wild rose or similar blossoms,…

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