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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  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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  Border (France), 1835–45

  Panels framed in grisaille containing alternately a mask centered within leaf forms and griffons, and a jewelled escutcheon. Below, a grisaille band along which at regular intervals are yellow gems.

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  Handscreen, late 19th–early 20th century

  Hand screen with a round leaf and carved and pierced wood handle. Silk leaf embroidered with silk showing various bird species among trees and flowering bushes. Two silk tassels.

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  Handscreen, late 19th–early 20th century

  Hand screen with a round leaf and carved and pierced wood frame and handle. Silk leaf embroidered with silk in satin stitch showing peacocks and other birds among flowers. Two…

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  Album Page, Wooded Inlet View, late 19th century

  Tall trees with two figures beneath in left foreground look toward water inlet; cliffs in distance on the right.