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  • Letter Case, 18th century

    Letter case of blue silk taffeta embroidered with straw in a symmetrical floral design. Fiber is couched flat, twisted and braided. Worked as a single panel; lined with tan silk.

  • Tile (USA), ca. 1880

    Blue. Framed by plants, or swan floats on a pond.

  • Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

    Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

  • Band (Morocco), 18th century

    Natural color linen worked in red silk with the design reserved in the linen outlined in green silk. Details of decoration in green silk. Main design consists of a fountain…

  • Border (England), 1835

    Large blue peony clustered with three gray and white daisies. Thin leaves are multi-shade brown flock, one base color, three other shades. Ground of diagonal thin yellow stripes under entire…

  • Letter Case (France), late 18th century

    Rectangular letter case in purple silk taffeta, now faded, embroidered with ribbons and colored silks. Inside the double envelope are pouches with flaps, all embroidered in similar floral patterns. Lined…

  • Textile (England), 1962

    Large scale, swirling design of sinuously curving foliage and oval blossoms; printed in purple, green, and red with black outlines on a white ground. Reprint in a new colorway of…

  • Drawing, Design for a Cover of Fortune Magazine, November 1945

    Image of the interior of a cargo ship. At bottom center are two blue silhouettes of workers, one is pushing a barrel at center and the other to the right…

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