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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…

  • Textile (Japan), 1900–1950

    Dark gray satin ground closely crossed with silver linear wave conventions with medium-scale repeat (upright in first row, reversed in alternate row) of golden geese in flight with spread wings…

  • Amorino Plate, possibly ca. 1600

    Plate with image of blindfolded Cupid at center. Rim decorated with grotesques. Yellow dash border.

  • 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.

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