Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1940

  Design of overlapping fern leaves in silver and white on gray ground.

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  Pleated Fan, 1820–1830

  Double paper leaf with gilded hand-colored etching.Obverse: scene of three women with a lyre. Possibly an operatic scene. Reverse: plain paper with small gold ornamentation. Carved bone sticks with metallic…

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  Sample Book (USA), 1948

  Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

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  Pleated Fan, 19th century

  Folding fan with a leaf of white bobbin lace with swirling floral patterns. Sticks of plain mother-of-pearl, with a wide white silk ribbon.

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  Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

  Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Table cover edged with insertions of darned net. Insertions in multi-colored silk and metallic thread in floral serpentine.

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Cream-colored linen table cover, with wide border designs worked in polychrome silks of pale green, yellow, pale rose, light blue, dark blue and dark green. Edged with border of dark…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Table cover or “paño de ofrenda” of white hand woven linen embroidered in light brown linen thread. Cutwork squares and borders are worked in white and brown thread. Traditional stylized…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Oblong table cover of hand-woven linen of sheer open weave, embroidered in brown and white silk in cross stitch. Allover pattern arranged in squares of highly stylized floral or lily…

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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1950

  Horizontal rows of white and red squares in outline, overlapping in such a way as to give an interlocked appearance. Small figures on blue-gray ground.