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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…

  • Textile (Portugal), 19th century

    Part of cover or curtain, of cotton striped in blue and white with printed designs in stripes. In blue, a vase with flowers; in white, groups of dogs alternating with…

  • 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…

  • Panel (possibly Portugal), 18th century

    White silk floral damask embroidered with scattered animals, birds and insects in colored silks and metal threads. With an embroidered obelisk surmounted by a coronet with serpents on either side.…

  • 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…

  • Textile (Greece), 18th century

    Coarse blue linen tabby embroidered with saw-tooth bands of white separating diagonal rows of red and yellow running stitch which reserve rows of backward L-shaped forms.

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