Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample Book Of Ribbons (USA), ca. 1910

  Notebook with dark leather corners and back, with board covers covered with polychrome marbled paper, and plain pages on which are pasted 94 wide ribbon samples in polychrome and white…

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Small embroidered picture depicting the story of Judith and Holofernes, worked almost entirely in knot stitches on white silk using colored silks and metallic threads. Judith, holding a sword in…

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  Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

  Bisymmetrical leaf and plant forms embossed in gold on glazed brown ground.

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  Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

  Textured green paper imitating embossed leather. Darker brown pigment rubbed into crevices.

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  Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

  Four brown and green stripes with stylized decoration on brown glazed crackled ground. Resembles painted leather.

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Two depths: in foreground, a woman with child speak to a bearded man; in background, an angel looks over a landscape with trees, a castle, and a tent…

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  Embroidered Picture, late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Three depths: in foreground, a landscape with flowers, a pond and animals (from left to right: lion, stag, leopard and unicorn); in middle ground, two women, one holding…

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  Altar Frontal (Italy), 16th century

  Large altar frontal with insertion bands of punto in aria in a reticella style showing an allover pattern of curving lines. Matching border with very deep points.

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  Altar Frontal (Italy), 16th–17th century

  Heavy linen altar frontal with a wide border showing a large-scale design of blossoms or pomegranates within curving circular bands reserved in linen. Narrow border of simple strapwork in the…

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  Altar Frontal (Italy), 17th century

  Small altar frontal with five perpendicular strips of drawn work with a darned pattern of pomegranates and larger leaves in a vine design. Bottom and edge trimmed with narrow bobbin…