Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Drawing (Italy)

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  Drawing (Italy)

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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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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1940

  Design of overlapping fern leaves in silver and white on gray ground.

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  Table Runner (Belgium), early 20th century

  Table runner with a lace border showing floral bouquets enframed by swirling border pattern.

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  Sidewall (USA), 1923

  Over-all pattern of pale blue and yellow flowers with twisting cream and white leaves and a gray background. However, the ground color itself, is actually light cream to which the…

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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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  Woman’s Mantle (chyrpy) (Turkmenistan), 19th century

  Woman’s white cotton chyrpy embroidered with silk and wool felt appliqué in red, green, yellow, blue and magenta. Vertical stalks of highly stylized tulips rise from the hem, and a…

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  Flame Drinking Glass, 1950

  Clear colorless swelling body, the heavy foot rotated through 45-degrees to form four curving concave panels which resolve into a circular form 2/3 the distance to the slightly thickened lip.

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  Cap (Egypt), late 13th–early 14th century

  Man’s cap of bright blue silk formed from six isoceles triangles, with a deep band to encircle the head. The triangles have quilted geometric borders and fillings; the band has…