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  • Sample Book Page, Mural Scrolls, 1948

    Mural miniatures of large-scale wall decorations designed especially for silk screen reproduction by the artists Calder, Matisse, Matta and Miro. They are entitled respectively, “A Piece of My Workshop”, “Arbre…

  • Border (England), 1835

    Large blue peony clustered with three gray and white daisies. Thin leaves are multi-shade brown flock, one base color, three other shades. Ground of diagonal thin yellow stripes under entire…

  • Sample Book Page (USA), ca. 1910

    Eighty-three samples of machine-made openwork and several examples of hand made lace mounted on boards. They imitate hand-embroidered net, crochet, or needlepoint. All are floral patterns plus a few of…

  • Sample Book Page (probably USA), 1900–1920

    Two hundred and eight samples of machine-made openwork in imitation of bobbin laces and mounted on boards. All are floral patterns plus a few of an early 1920’s geometric style.…

  • Frieze And Border (France), 1820–35

    Suspended in arched framework with pendants, orange flowers hanging from brown foliage.

  • Sample Book, Wallpapers of Merit, Book No. 3, 1917

    Consists of 95 sidewalls and 73 borders. Gold embossed title on black paper cover. Papers consist of imitations of textures and woods, floral borders, stripes, large over-all patterns

  • Sampler (Sri Lanka), 1956

    Part of Singalese alphabet above figures of lion and woman carrying pot.

  • Poster, IBM / Time

    Poster featuring a cloudy sky with drawings of various clocks. Text in white, upper right: To him whose elastic and vigorous / thought keeps pace with the sun, / the…

  • Border (France), 1830–50

    Simulated small strips of fabric or leather, connecting at 90 degree angles, anchored by a brass tack. Printed in blue and ocher. Printed four across.

  • Sidewall, “Kolibri” [Hummingbird], ca. 1920

    Bird, flower, leaf forms in color on blue ground

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