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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.

  • Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

    Bisymmetrical leaf and plant forms embossed in gold on glazed brown ground.

  • Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

    Textured green paper imitating embossed leather. Darker brown pigment rubbed into crevices.

  • Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

    Four brown and green stripes with stylized decoration on brown glazed crackled ground. Resembles painted leather.

  • 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…

  • Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

    Diaper of tiny close-set beads.

  • Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

    Close-set diaper of very small circles. Resembles lizard skin in the over-all apearance. Painted black.

  • Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

    Vertical rectangle. Approximately twenty emblems of different shapes arranged at random. Several of the motifs occur twice with either coloring or direction changed. Geometrical, foliate and mask designs are included.…

  • Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

    Repeating design made up of adjoining small triangles, some filled in with solid color, the others ornamented with small geometrical figures and flower designs. Dark brown and gray on yellowish…

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