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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  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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  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…

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  Pleated Fan And Case, late 19th century

  Pleated fan. Cream-colored lace leaf backed with white satin. Mother-of-pearl sticks. Yellow paste jewel at rivet. Brass bail.

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  Pleated Fan And Case, early 20th century

  Pleated fan. Leaf of black mousseline de soie backed with white. Obverse: embroidered with shaped steel sequins, forming three medallions with all-over scroll and leaf designs. Guards and sticks of…

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  Pleated Fan And Case, late 19th–early 20th century

  Pleated mourning fan. Leaf of black organdy. tortoise shell guards and sticks. Black enameled metal bail.

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  Pleated Fan And Case, late 19th–early 20th century

  Pleated fan. Leaf of black chantilly bobbin lace with design of a flower basket in center and scrolls on each side, backed with white georgette crêpe. Guards and sticks of…