Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Chalice Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Square, probably top of chalice cover; cloth of silver, with symmetrical design of stylized plant forms and jars at corners and sides, pointing toward center rosette. Coral beads form leaves…

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  Chalice Cover (Italy), 16th–17th century

  Faded purple ribbed silk ground embroidered in colored silk and metallic thread. Central design shows a cruciform composed of conventionalized flowerheads in profile and S-forms of foliage. Cover design of…

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Small embroidered picture depicting the story of Judith and Holofernes, worked almost entirely in knot stitches on white silk using colored silks and metallic threads. Judith, holding a sword in…

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  Chalice Cover (Italy), early 17th century

  Formerly a square chalice cover, now cut in half on the diagonal, in linen punto in aria needle lace. Showing the device of the Borghese Family, the Agnus Dei and…

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Two depths: in foreground, a woman with child speak to a bearded man; in background, an angel looks over a landscape with trees, a castle, and a tent…

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  Embroidered Picture, late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Three depths: in foreground, a landscape with flowers, a pond and animals (from left to right: lion, stag, leopard and unicorn); in middle ground, two women, one holding…

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  Embroidered Picture (Italy), 16th century

  Panel, almost square, of elaborate embroidery in silk and gold on ground of dark green satin. Central oval with embroidered pictorial representation of the “Adoration of the Christ Child,” white…

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  Stereocard

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  Stereocard

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  Stereocard