Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample (USA)

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  Sample (USA)

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  Sample (France), 1909–12

  Piece of sheer silk embroidered with stylized lily-like forms with thin crossing stems, in off-white and pale yellow silks on white silk chiffon and net.

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  Pleated Fan, 1820–1830

  Double paper leaf with gilded hand-colored etching.Obverse: scene of three women with a lyre. Possibly an operatic scene. Reverse: plain paper with small gold ornamentation. Carved bone sticks with metallic…

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  Pleated Fan, 19th century

  Folding fan with a leaf of white bobbin lace with swirling floral patterns. Sticks of plain mother-of-pearl, with a wide white silk ribbon.

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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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  Sample, Large Stem Taff, late 19th–early 20th century

  Medium-scale floral in the Chinoiserie style, with foliage including bamboo and tree peony, in blues, greens, yellow and tan with balck outline on a cream ground. Narrow plain selvedge with…

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  Sample, Loddon, late 19th–early 20th century

  Large-scale symmetrical design of intertwined stems forming arabesques and ogees, with large flower heads, in blue, green, and yellow with black outline on white ground. Double warps.

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  Sample, Trent, late 19th–early 20th century