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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,…

  • Mat (USA), ca. 1920

    Small mat with a design of a winged griffon within a shield shape. Inspired by the crest of the Borghese family and was copied from a Venetian chalice veil made…

  • Mat (USA), ca. 1920

    Eight-sided mat made of unbleached linen and ornamented with embroidery and bordered with woven picots and small tassels.

  • 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…

  • Mat, Sea Fare, mid-20th century

    Stylish symmetrical design of sea horses, sea-weed, sand dollars, etc., printed in blue on white ground with self fringe.

  • Mat (USA), 1956

    Rectangular mat with wide end borders in a geometrical design of pale green and salmon pink. Narrow side borders are in same salmon pink.

  • Mat (USA), 1956

    Black with fringe on the sides.

  • Mat, Ad Infinitum, mid-20th century

    Large area of dark grey reserved in small white floral designs and flanked on one side by wide strip of solid orange.

  • 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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