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  • Sample Book (USA), 1948

    Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

  • 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.

  • Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

    Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

  • 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…

  • Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

    Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

  • 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…

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Shaggy-headed flower sprays with long pointed leaves filling horizontal band in serpentines. Floral guard border with decorated guard strips. In purples, bright turquoise and greens on a tan ground. One…

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Close-set horizontal repeat of flowering sprays. Flower and leaf guard band at bottom with decorated guard strips. In purples, bright turqoise and green on a dark tan ground. Long warp…

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Shawl border fragment with a horizontal repeat of two variants of vase and flowers in twining framework of stems with small leaves and flowers. Scrolling floral guard band with decorated…

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Band filled with flowering branches with large stylized flowerheads and many fine delicate leaves and berries. In light purple with darker purple details on a creamy white ground.

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