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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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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.
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Fragment (Burma), early 19th century
Figural groups from Burmese iconography, in close-set vertical repeat about 16″ high. Blue ground, right half textured with tiny white dots and left half with faint yellow bars suggesting architectural…
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Hanging, 18th century
Large embroidered panel with a field filled with floral boteh forms and a deep border with open flower heads and curving vines and leaves. The field has an eight-pointed star…
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