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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.

  • 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…

  • Handscreen, late 19th–early 20th century

    Hand screen with a round leaf and carved and pierced wood handle. Silk leaf embroidered with silk showing various bird species among trees and flowering bushes. Two silk tassels.

  • Handscreen, late 19th–early 20th century

    Hand screen with a round leaf and carved and pierced wood frame and handle. Silk leaf embroidered with silk in satin stitch showing peacocks and other birds among flowers. Two…

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