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  • Towel End, 18th–19th century

    Towel end made up of three pieces of loosely woven fine cloth with a deep band of embroidery of stylized allover floral design in silver-gilt thread and silk embroidery in…

  • Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

    Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.

  • Towel End, 19th century

    End crossed by two types of shrine forms (?) alternating in blue, green and pink silk silver thread with touches of brown and cream. Fret border in cream and silver…

  • Towel End, 19th century

    Broad lower towel end with a border of drawn work with animals confronting initials “M.I.D.” under coronet and with floral and bird frame; symmetrical flower motif on each end. Broad…

  • Towel End, 19th century

    Towel end with deep border at bottom of three flower heads in drawn work with fine embroidered foliage detail, in white linen thread. Initials “I.A.D.” in symmetrical leaf-framed cartouche above.…

  • Textile, 1940–49

    Sample of printed silk in shades of red, black for outlining and flecks of the white ground showing. Design is an allover flower pattern, perhaps wild rose or similar blossoms,…

  • Gloves (Finland), ca. 1875

    Dark red gloves in small, tight stitches with a broad band of addorsed birds with stylized floral motif between in pink and yellow in the palm area. Narrow band between…

  • Reproduction, Album: Imperial

    A partly opened box, which appears to be fabricated of leather (exterior) and velvet (interior) is placed on the diagonal and abuts the top and bottom edges. A design, perhaps…

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