Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Table cover edged with insertions of darned net. Insertions in multi-colored silk and metallic thread in floral serpentine.

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Cream-colored linen table cover, with wide border designs worked in polychrome silks of pale green, yellow, pale rose, light blue, dark blue and dark green. Edged with border of dark…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Table cover or “paño de ofrenda” of white hand woven linen embroidered in light brown linen thread. Cutwork squares and borders are worked in white and brown thread. Traditional stylized…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Oblong table cover of hand-woven linen of sheer open weave, embroidered in brown and white silk in cross stitch. Allover pattern arranged in squares of highly stylized floral or lily…

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  Earrings (India), late 19th century

  Pair of earrings. Turquoise matrix and silver.

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  Earrings (India), late 19th century

  Pair of earrings of gilt metal, filigree, the outer half circle form has suspended white glass pearls and beads in green and turquoise. Inner circle is set with pendants.

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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Large reddish-pink table cover edged around all sides with a deeply scalloped lace in a pattern of rosettes.

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  Earrings (USA), ca. 1850

  Pair of earrings of hairi-work woven into spherical and cylindrical forms, mounted in gold.

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  Earrings (Italy), ca. 1860

  “Florentine Mosaic” parure, set in gilt metal filigree and granule decoration surrounding circles (upper portion of earrings), and half-circles of porcelain or enamel. The parure is composed of: brooch; pendant…

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

  Oblong table cover of dark green silk bordered with green net in an appliqued design of foliage in reversed scrolls that terminate in lilies. Applique is natural colored linen embroidered…