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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,…

  • Sampler (England), 17th century

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

  • Brisé Fan And Case (France), late 19th–early 20th century

    Brisé fan. Painted ivory sticks. Obverse: central cartouche showing a male and female figure in 18th century dress, and two side cartouches containing the implements of music and agriculture. Reverse:…

  • Brisé Fan And Case, early 18th century

    Brisé fan. Ivory sticks painted in oil and finished with Vernis Martin. Obverse: divided into leaf and gorge area, the former decorated with a central cartouche containing an outdoor scene…

  • 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…

  • Brisé Fan And Case, late 19th century

    Brisé fan. Painted ivory sticks. Obverse: figures of man and woman in landscape. Gorge and borders in “Vernis Martin” style, showing floral motifs within miniature cartouches. Reverse: landscape without figures.…

  • Brisé Fan And Case (France), early 19th century

    Brisé fan with pierced horn sticks painted with forget-me-nots, laced with a pale silk ribbon. Fan case has removable lid.

  • Sampler (Austria), late 18th–early 19th century

    Long narrow sampler of knitting in fine linen, showing twenty-five sections of different stitches, narrow end designs.

  • Sampler (Germany), 19th century

    Fine stem stitch outlines two coronets, a crest, in blue. The initials W, S punched with buttonhole stitch. AK, JAV, and scrolls printed in blue. Drawn work borders.

  • Sampler (Germany), early 19th century

    Seventy-eight needlework patterns embroidered on a ground of hexagonal mesh. Mounted on stiff green paper.

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