Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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.

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  Waistcoat (England), late 18th–early 19th century

  Short waistcoat in reddish-pink satin with small, dark green cut velvet repeating buds in a heart-shaped framework. Printed cotton facing to fronts in multi-colored stripes and white lotus shapes. Undyed…

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  Waistcoat

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  Flounce (Belgium), 1745–65

  Section of a wide flounce with a design of curving garlands that alternates with a symmetrical framing element. Neptune with a trident alternates with a group of heraldic banners with…

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  Flounce (Belgium), late 17th century

  Brussels-style flounce with references to liquid including a woman sitting on a storm cloud, two exotically dressed people watering a fruit tree and a woman giving her milk to a…

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  Flounce (France), 18th century

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  Flounce (Italy), 18th century

  Narrow flounce of bobbin lace with a design depicting classical figures amid foliage (Daphne and Apollo?).

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  Flounce (France)

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  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…

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  Waistcoat, 18th century

  Man’s coat of white cotton, lined with white linen, with deep cuff ornamentation, all of white quilting with sections of punched work and embroidered French knots. The design is an…