Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  • Embroidery, late 18th century

    Cream-colored cotton (possibly from a curtain or skirt) with detached floral motives worked in chain stitch. Flowers small garden varieties in clusters 3″ to 4″ long; arranged in staggered rows.…

  • Dado (England), 1817–27

    Simulates wooden Chinese fretwork railing with elements repeating horizontally. An illusion of depth is achieved by means of shadows against yellow irregular wave background. Printed in purple on yellow ground.

  • Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

    Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

  • Dado (France), 1810

    A horizontal rectangle shows two children. The boy has placed a board over a small brook and the girl is in the act of crossing over. A floral rope marks…

  • Dado (France), ca. 1815

    Large horizontal rectangle containing motif of doves perched on a quiver of arrows. On either side are vertical rectangles the designs of which are identical: a trophy made up of…

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