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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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Hanging (India), 1700–1750

    Hanging with part of one border cut out to shape it to coverlet use. Two large curving sprays with various large, carefully shaded flowers and large curving jagged leaves, and…

  • Hanging (China), 19th century

    Flying phoenix holding curving sprays of tree peony in deep blue cut velvet on a rectangular foundation of tarnished gold. Border of stylized lotus and leaves reserved in gold on…

  • 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.

  • Tablecloth (USA), 1926

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

  • Hanging, Sailors Take Warning, ca. 1928

    Landscape with high sky, in bright pink, blues, green, black silk and off-white chenille wefts, on bright orange warps.

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