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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  Shawl (Mexico), late 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow shawl of cream colored cotton embroidered at the ends and along the sides in colored silks and paillettes in a leaf and bow-knot design. Scalloped ends of netting…

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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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  Shawl (Belgium), 19th century

  White lace shawl of fine mesh with detached floral designs and a wide floral border.

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  Shawl (Switzerland), 19th–20th century

  Shawl in fine white cotton printed in polychrome and what appears to be hand painted additions. Border design is a rural scene along a river; corners feature a rustic bridge,…

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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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  Shawl (India), 1901–25

  Kashmir shawl with a horizontal repeat of flowers flanked by elaborate interlace of decorated arabesques; twining flower sprays fill interstices; scrolling floral guard band with guard strip above and below.…