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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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sugar Bowl And Lid (USA), 1825–50

    Ovoid body on spreading foot, with bead edging and fret band; two scrolled handles. Cover in concave tiers, with figure of standing Chinese holding a bamboo staff. Engraved on one…

  • Sugar Bowl And Lid (Italy), ca. 1800

    Four-lobed oval plan with curved walls. Four-lobed dome cover with knob shape of a hip and leaf. Blue-gray body. Bowl and cover each decorated with two oval medallions with polychromed…

  • 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.…

  • Woman’s Headdress (Greece), late 18th–early 19th century

    Long cream-colored panel with wide embroidered border at each end and long warp fringe. Border shows two rows of triangles separated by wide zigzags of drawn work in silk and…

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