Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Pleated Mourning Fan, early 20th century

  Pleated mourning fan. Black silk leaf embroidered with black silk flower sprays in satin stitch. Bamboo sticks stained and painted with small graduating flowers in black oil. Metal bail.

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  Pleated Mourning Fan, early 20th century

  Pleated fan. Black organdy leaf embroidered with plastic black sequins. Black wood sticks incised with grape and berry motifs and inlaid with plastic piqués. Metal bail.

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  Pleated Mourning Fan, early 20th century

  Pleated fan. Black organdy leaf embroidered with plastic black sequins. Black wood sticks incised with leaf motifs and inlaid with steel piqués. Metal bail. Double black tassel. The form of…

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  Pleated Mourning Fan (France), 1885–90

  Pleated mourning fan. Black silk crepe leaf. Black painted wood guards and sticks are inlaid with round black spangles. Guards cut à jour in a strapwork design of interlacing ovals…

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  Textile (Greece)

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  Handkerchief (Greece)

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  Band (Greece), 18th–19th century

  Linen band embroidered with red silk with a repeating alternation of two patterns. One is a mermaid and the other a bird and cornucopia, each flipped both vertically and horizontally.…

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  Woman’s Headdress (Greece), late 18th–early 19th century

  Long cream-colored panel with wide embroidered border at each end and long warp fringe. Border shows two rows of triangles separated by wide zigzags of drawn work in silk and…

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  Textile (Greece), 18th century

  Coarse blue linen tabby embroidered with saw-tooth bands of white separating diagonal rows of red and yellow running stitch which reserve rows of backward L-shaped forms.

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  Pillow Cover (Greece), 18th century

  Rectangle of embroidery with a large central lozenge surrounded by four incomplete lozenges, embroidered in red, white and yellow silks on a blue ground. Voided geometric forms resembling Arabic script.