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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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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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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…
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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…
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Altar Frontal
Single row of large scale figures under stylized canopies. Some floral and decorative detail and inscription across the bottom.
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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.…
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