Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Necklace, ca. 1870

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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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  Necklace

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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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  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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  Necklace with amulet Necklace, 19th century

  Amulet: metal, probably silver alloy. Box 5.5 cm (2 1/8 in.) square, with cover having filigree and turquoise ornamentation including four triangular pieces at base, applied at each side of…

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  Necklace (India), probably 19th century

  Necklace: Thin metal (copper or gilt alloy) with tooled ornaments, each bead filled with composition. Cloth disks separate the beads from each other. Most beads are roughly flattened spherical. Two…

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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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  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…