Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Apron (Spain), 18th century

  Apron for an altar figure in pink satin embroidered in silver thread. With 1949-83-2 forms costume for figure of Infant Jesus.

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  Cape (Spain), 18th century

  Cape for an altar figure in pink satin embroidered in silver thread in a flower and foliage design. Scattered small detached flower design. Edging of narrow silver lace.

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  Fragment (Spain), 17th century

  Yellow damask with an allover design of a carnation in a vase above two confronted, rampant lions forming an ogival shape.

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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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  Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

  Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

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  Fragments (Spain), 16th–17th century

  Allover design of stylized leaf motifs and birds in yellow and green on a red ground.

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  Trimming (Spain), 18th century

  Fragment of an embroidered and scalloped trimming. Yellow satin cut into scallops is edged with green and gold cord and embroidered in the center with a four petal flower head…

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  Fragment (Spain), 1830–35

  Fragment of a dress silk with an allover design of floral sprays and a lace pattern in blue, green, purple and white. On a black ground.

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  Border (Spain), 17th century

  Border for a square, possible a chalice cover, of needle lace – Point d’Espagne. Silk and linen threads in gray and tan, gold and silver thread. Design of symmetrically arranged…

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  Band (Spain), late 16th–early 17th century