Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler (USA), 1827

  Sampler embroidered in red, black and blue on a white ground, with the alphabet and inscription Susanna Meck 1827 at the top, and many small detached motifs including animals, birds,…

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  Sampler (England), 17th century

  Thirteen cross borders in cutwork with needlepoint stitches and embroidery in satin and curled stitches.

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  Carpet Fragment (England), early 20th century

  Carpet fragment with a medium-scale allover flower and leaf repeat in delft blue, light blue and pale coral. One plain selvage with black cotton warps.

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  Panel (USA), ca. 1880

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  Textile (India), early 20th century

  Symmetrical horizontal repeat of vase with flowers (two alternating variants) in decorated arabesque framework with filling sprays of twining stems, leaves and flowers. Floral guard band at bottom within decorated…

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  Altar Frontal (Italy), 16th century

  Large altar frontal with insertion bands of punto in aria in a reticella style showing an allover pattern of curving lines. Matching border with very deep points.

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  Altar Frontal (Italy), 16th–17th century

  Heavy linen altar frontal with a wide border showing a large-scale design of blossoms or pomegranates within curving circular bands reserved in linen. Narrow border of simple strapwork in the…

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  Altar Frontal (Italy), 17th century

  Small altar frontal with five perpendicular strips of drawn work with a darned pattern of pomegranates and larger leaves in a vine design. Bottom and edge trimmed with narrow bobbin…

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  Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

  Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

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  Tile (England), 1898–1907

  Square tile or buff clay with grog added. Streaky brilliant peacock-blue colored glaze, crackled. Impressed mark: “Dm 98”