Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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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  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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  Ashtray

  Square plate of clear glass with imbedded bubbles; Brown and yellow trim around edge and in center; Central farmer figure

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  Embroidered Picture (Italy), 16th century

  Panel, almost square, of elaborate embroidery in silk and gold on ground of dark green satin. Central oval with embroidered pictorial representation of the “Adoration of the Christ Child,” white…

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  Ashtray (Sweden), 1942

  Nearly vertical sides, flattened to form oval. White body, treated with metal oxides: cloudy greenish gray outside, streaky yellow and brown converging into pale blue area at the bottom inside.…

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  Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile…

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  Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Long band composed of three shorter pieces stitched together. All-over embroidery in irregularly interlaced pattern of bands striped in three shades of brown. One selvage present, other long edge cut…

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  Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Natural, brown, and rust-red strips of plain woven raffia stitched together on long edges, finished with buttonhole embroidery and raffia pompoms.

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  Fragment (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Fragment of bark cloth with a center field of alternating black and natural triangles, with borders on two sides of natural color with a single black stripe in the center.