Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Table Mat (Italy), 17th century

  Table mat edged at either side with a wide border showing peacocks.

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Small embroidered picture depicting the story of Judith and Holofernes, worked almost entirely in knot stitches on white silk using colored silks and metallic threads. Judith, holding a sword in…

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Two depths: in foreground, a woman with child speak to a bearded man; in background, an angel looks over a landscape with trees, a castle, and a tent…

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  Embroidered Picture, late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Three depths: in foreground, a landscape with flowers, a pond and animals (from left to right: lion, stag, leopard and unicorn); in middle ground, two women, one holding…

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  Table Mat, late 19th century

  Table mat of off-white linen, approximately round with scalloped edges. Embroidered in pale greens, pinks, red and off-white silks with a cipher entwined with two pink roses. Border of small…

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  Table Mat, late 19th century

  White linen tray or table mat of natural-colored linen, scalloped to a shape approximately oval, the edge buttonholed in white silk. multi-colored linen and silk embroidery of purple, yellow and…

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  Embroidered Picture (Italy), 16th century

  Panel, almost square, of elaborate embroidery in silk and gold on ground of dark green satin. Central oval with embroidered pictorial representation of the “Adoration of the Christ Child,” white…

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  Table Mat (USA), ca. 1937

  Cream silk table mat with borders of broad and narrow bands of silver. Hand-hemmed on short edges. Woven in so-called summer and winter weave.

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  Table Mat (USA), ca. 1937

  Cream silk with grouped ribs at either end of bands of plain weave with gold wefts alternating with plain silk. Hand-hemmed on short edges.

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  Ornament, Christmas Tree (USA), 1850–99

  White whistles with pink and black dots.