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  • Chalice Cover (Spain), 17th century

    Square, probably top of chalice cover; cloth of silver, with symmetrical design of stylized plant forms and jars at corners and sides, pointing toward center rosette. Coral beads form leaves…

  • Chalice Cover (Italy), 16th–17th century

    Faded purple ribbed silk ground embroidered in colored silk and metallic thread. Central design shows a cruciform composed of conventionalized flowerheads in profile and S-forms of foliage. Cover design of…

  • Chalice Cover (Italy), early 17th century

    Formerly a square chalice cover, now cut in half on the diagonal, in linen punto in aria needle lace. Showing the device of the Borghese Family, the Agnus Dei and…

  • Borders, Peer Gynt, 1950–51

    Serpentine border in five colors with stylized tulips and other flowers. Scalloped lower edge, included in the same sheet is smaller serpentine border of leaves and buds to be used…

  • Blouse Pieces (Philippines), early 20th century

    Bodice (c) of sheer fine piña cloth with tiny white cotton floral sprig embroidered at widely spaced intervals. Shallow oval neckline faced with cotton cloth. Sides not seamed. Separate sleeves…

  • Edging (France), 19th century

    Lace band with floss flowers sewn at intervals. Loosely worked undyed silk bobbin lace with a scalloped edge dotted with single flowers and a few small knotted tassels of polychrome…

  • Coverlet Fragment (USA), late 18th–early 19th century

    Vertical-horizontal repeat of large squares broken by small geometric trellis framework and other broad bands of geometric patterning. Reversible “Summer and Winter” weave in dark blue and white.

  • Coverlet Fragment (USA), 1830s

    Section of an overshot coverlet with large squres in broad band framework; various geometrical fillings to all areas. Pattern formed by wool pattern wefts of dark blue and rosy rust…

  • Coverlet Fragment (USA), early 19th century

    Squares with various geometric fillings formed by dark blue pattern wefts on a cloth ground of undyed cotton. Reversible.

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