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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  Tablecloth (Germany), 19th century

  Design of six large medallions containing a scene from Lohengrin. Border around the cloth has interlacing bands forming circles and a lyre between confronted swans. Large monogram: E.S.H.

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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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  Ashtray

  Square plate of clear glass with imbedded bubbles; Brown and yellow trim around edge and in center; Central farmer figure

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  Tablecloth (India)

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  Ashtray (Sweden), 1942

  Nearly vertical sides, flattened to form oval. White body, treated with metal oxides: cloudy greenish gray outside, streaky yellow and brown converging into pale blue area at the bottom inside.…

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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.

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  Tablecloth (USA), 1926

  Tablecloth with a repeat of large squares formed by grouped warps.

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  Tablecloth (India)

  Multicolored design of a man on a platform with musical instruments – drum and bells – with large urn of flowers and a bird. Design is repeated twelve times around…