Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Pillow Cover (Italy), 16th century

  Oblong pillow cover of heavy cream-colored linen embroidered in red and cream silk, ornamented on four sides with small tassels of cream linen with a few threads of red and…

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  Pillow Cover, 17th century

  Solidly worked multicolored pillow cover with a conventionalized fruit and flower border that encloses a scene from the Parable of the Prodigal Son; scene depicted is his return to his…

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  Pillow Cover, 17th century

  Solidly worked multicolored pillow cover with a conventionalized fruit and flower border that encloses a scene from the Parable of the Prodigal Son; scene depicted is the time of his…

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  Pillow Cover (England), ca. 1570–73

  Cushion cover representing the expulsion of the prodigal son. Predominant colors are blue, rose and tan.

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  Pillow Cover (Philippines), 19th–20th century

  Panel of piña cloth with allover geometric appliqué pattern, repeated twice, one for the front of the cover, the other for the back of the cover.

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  Valance (Germany), late 18th–early 19th century

  Valence with scalloped border in floral printed cotton with the edges bound in blue tape. The pattern has natural-size flowers and leaves in violet, blue, green, yellow, red, and brown…

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  Pillow Cover (Italy), 16th–17th century

  Small pillow cover backed with linen. The front shows a conventional wheel design and has narrow pointed lace at the edges.

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  Valance (England), ca. 1790

  Cotton printed with design of vertical stripes with alternating rows of flowering vines or scattered blooms.

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  Valance (Russia), 19th century

  Symmetrical design of horse drawn coach in profile on either side of tripartite domed building. Many incidental human and plant forms. White on white with squared mesh ground. Symmetrical vermicular…

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  Valance (France), 1783–89