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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.

  • Waistcoat (England), late 18th–early 19th century

    Short waistcoat in reddish-pink satin with small, dark green cut velvet repeating buds in a heart-shaped framework. Printed cotton facing to fronts in multi-colored stripes and white lotus shapes. Undyed…

  • Coverlet (USA), 1800–1850

    Blue and white coverlet with a central field of close-set horizontal and vertical repeats of flat, stylized groups of large-scale roses and leaves with rosettes in the interspaces. Bottom border…

  • Waistcoat, 18th century

    Man’s coat of white cotton, lined with white linen, with deep cuff ornamentation, all of white quilting with sections of punched work and embroidered French knots. The design is an…

  • Coverlet (India), 17th century

    Indo-European figural groups, plant and animal combinations, in large lobed medallions in horizontal-vertical arrangement on a ground filled with small figures, floral motives, birds and animals. In coarse yellow silk…

  • Coverlet (USA), 1855

    Large complete coverlet in navy blue wool and white cotton with two central wreaths enclosing an eight-pointed star. Surrounding these are an array of floral and bird motifs including eagles…

  • 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…

  • Coverlet (Malta), 17th century

    Vertical rectangle with field filled with medium-scale repeat of extremely stylized and angular flower and vase in trellis framework of diamonds with interlocking corners; wide border of smaller scale diamond…

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