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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  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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  Box, Jenny Lind Paper Doll Set, ca. 1850

  Cardboard box that contains the Jenny Lind paper doll and costumes.

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  Box (Italy), 18th century

  rectangular wooden box, on oiutside covered with gold-tooled leather; sprigs of flowers on sides and surrounding raised central panel of cover, which in center bears coat-of-arms flanked by two quatrefoils,…

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  Box

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  Box (USA), early 19th century

  Rectangular box with hinged cover domed from front to back. Ring bail handle on top of cover and hasp fastener, with staple broken off. Box is painted black with floral…

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  Box (USA), early 19th century

  Rectangular box with hinged cover domed from front to back. Ring bail handle on cover, and hinged harp fastening. Painted black with horizontal band of dull gray and upper half…

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  Cushion Cover (Greece), 18th century

  Cushion cover of heavy, hand-woven linen, dyed in indigo. Embroidered with red, white and buff silk in a geometric design of star and leaf forms. The motifs have saw-tooth edges,…

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  Cushion Cover (England), 1800–1815

  Square cushion cover of printed cotton velvet with a standing figure of a man in fashionable dress with striped hose and a bicorn hat leaning on a spiral walking stick.…