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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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Chalice Cover (Spain), 17th century
Square, probably top of chalice cover; cloth of silver, with symmetrical design of stylized plant forms and jars at corners and sides, pointing toward center rosette. Coral beads form leaves…
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Chalice Cover (Italy), 16th–17th century
Faded purple ribbed silk ground embroidered in colored silk and metallic thread. Central design shows a cruciform composed of conventionalized flowerheads in profile and S-forms of foliage. Cover design of…
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Chalice Cover (Italy), early 17th century
Formerly a square chalice cover, now cut in half on the diagonal, in linen punto in aria needle lace. Showing the device of the Borghese Family, the Agnus Dei and…
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Sampler (Germany), early 19th century
Twenty-seven patterns embroidered on hexagonal double-ply mesh in small squares; three squares not filled in. Mounted on red paper.
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