Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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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  Sidewall (France), 1910

  Heavy bisymmetrical flower and leaf design. Straight across match. Shiny brown flock on dull brown flock ground.

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  Drawing, Archbishop’s Throne and Canopy; Six Separate Studies for a Throne, Prie-Dieu, and Canopy, 1808

  Elevation of an elaborate throne and canopy at the center, rendered in full color; side elevation of canopy, in line, right. Side elevation of throne and other details, in line,…

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  Nightcap (France), 18th century

  Tall man’s cap of brilliant yellow silk embroidered with floral vines in silver metallic yarns. Lower edge turns up in the bicorne style.

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  Nightcap (France), ca. 1730

  Man’s nightcap with a rounded crown and turned-up brim. The fabric has a green silk satin ground with a woven pattern of flowers and arabesques in cream silk. The brim…

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  Handkerchief (Greece)

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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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  Cup And Saucer (England), ca. 1910

  Four-lobed curved demitasse, with double ring handle, and four-lobed saucer. Outisde of cup and inside of saucer decorated with wide gold band with green dots in high reflief, on pink…

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  Nightcap (France), 18th century

  Man’s nightcap made of four panels of undyed ribbed cotton with fairly deep cuff, piped along four seams and top of cuff with blue silk; topped with silk and metallic…