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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  Textile (Portugal), 19th century

  Part of cover or curtain, of cotton striped in blue and white with printed designs in stripes. In blue, a vase with flowers; in white, groups of dogs alternating with…

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  Oil Lamp, 1st century BC

  Crude oil lamp with round handle and pressed leaf pattern.

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  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.

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  Oil Lamp (USA), 19th century

  Ship’s lantern

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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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  Panel (possibly Portugal), 18th century

  White silk floral damask embroidered with scattered animals, birds and insects in colored silks and metal threads. With an embroidered obelisk surmounted by a coronet with serpents on either side.…

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  Floor Tile (possibly Portugal), 16th–early 17th century

  Square tile of buff clay with thin underfired opaque grayish-white glaze. Underglaze blue painting of diagonally placed heraldic shield with eagle and three pointed arches. Above, helmet with plumes, and…

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  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.