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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  Curtain Panel (China), 19th century

  Allover floral design in polychrome on a natural-colored ground.

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  Curtain Panel, 18th–early 19th century

  Vertical curtain panel with four broad vertical bands; each filled with a single broad serpentine band in shaded blue with a small blaze in each scallop and with a straight…

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  Curtain Panel (France), 1800–1850

  Part of a white muslin curtain embroidered in white. Design has a repeating pattern of vases with flowers connected by garlands. Both edges scalloped.

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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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  Hanging (India), 1700–1750

  Hanging with part of one border cut out to shape it to coverlet use. Two large curving sprays with various large, carefully shaded flowers and large curving jagged leaves, and…

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  Hanging (China), 19th century

  Flying phoenix holding curving sprays of tree peony in deep blue cut velvet on a rectangular foundation of tarnished gold. Border of stylized lotus and leaves reserved in gold on…

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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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  Hanging, Sailors Take Warning, ca. 1928

  Landscape with high sky, in bright pink, blues, green, black silk and off-white chenille wefts, on bright orange warps.