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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,…

  • Sampler (England), 17th century

    Thirteen cross borders in cutwork with needlepoint stitches and embroidery in satin and curled stitches.

  • Oil Lamp, 1st century BC

    Crude oil lamp with round handle and pressed leaf pattern.

  • Oil Lamp (Italy), 1st century BC

    Handled lamp with depressed center, spade-shaped spout joined to body with pair of volutes. Marks on base: an impressed foot and a strigil in relief.

  • Oil Lamp (USA), 19th century

    Ship’s lantern

  • 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…

  • Sidewall, Giraffes, 1953

    Similar to a bandbox paper of the 1830s. Medallion has large giraffe with two oriental figures pulling at its bridle reins. This alternates vertically with small medallion of a lion-like…

  • Sample (USA), ca. 1950

    Woven sample with horizontal stripes of tans, greens and bright fuchsia. Warp is white silk; wefts are thin tan, off-white, and fuchsia chenille, bright green synthetic yarn, very thick yellow-green…

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