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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…

  • Gloves (Estonia), ca. 1875

    Bright pink gloves in firm stockinette stitch with band of confronted birds and plants around palm in dark brown with touches of blue, white, yellow, and green. Smaller stylized flower…

  • 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.

  • Sampler (Germany), 19th century

    Fine stem stitch outlines two coronets, a crest, in blue. The initials W, S punched with buttonhole stitch. AK, JAV, and scrolls printed in blue. Drawn work borders.

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