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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  Tie, early 20th century

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  Tie (France), 19th century

  Black silk tie with narrow neck section and wider oval motifs. Design of flowers and stems with leaves within conventionalized border.

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  Tie (France), 19th century

  Narrow black lace band in a conventionalized flower and leaf design. A medallion at either end shows a quartered shield, each quarter with a flower surrounded by leaves.

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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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  Tie (France), mid-19th century

  Narrow border ornamented with small four-petaled flowers. Medallions at either end show design of floral sprays in leaf border.

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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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  Silhouette

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  Silhouette

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  Silhouette