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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  Frame

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  Frame

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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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  Frame, 1905–1910

  Vertical rectangle of natural wood with gilt rabbet. Intersecting grooved moulding on bottom and sides, ending in scrolls on four corners. Top smooth, with only one deep groove.

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  Frame (France), 1905–10

  Horizontal oval natural wood frame with gilt rabbet. Molding resolving in leaves and scrolls on both sides of center top, at center bottom and four places on lower half.

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  Frame (France), 1909

  Vertical rectangular hanging frame with a rounded bottom. Scrolled, entwined stems forming glazed tracery lined with a yellow-hued velvet; plate glass insert.

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  Frame (France), 1907

  Vertical, arched rectangle on flaring base (a). Top and sides and opening decorated with scrolls and stems in relief; silding back panel (b); plate glass insert (c).