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  • Borders (Greece), 19th century

    Two borders, probably from sleeve or bottom of dress, worked in silks in red, yellow, orange, white, and outlines of black. Design shows a stylized flower head, with heart-shaped leaves…

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), early 20th century

    Narrow geometrical border embroidered in red, white, yellow, orange, and green ramie cross-stitch on old black traders’ cotton

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

    Broad chevron band embroidered in yellow, orange, and green on black traders’ cotton. Cross-stitch guard border.

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

    “Old black traders’ cotton” worked in fine white, orange, yellow, green cross stitch, with geometrical band with stylized floral motives extending from it on lower edge.

  • Breast Plate (Taiwan), 1900–1955

    Diamond-shaped badge with allover continuous lozenge pattern of blue-green, cerise, and purple in weft floats on natural ramie warps. Divided into eight equal parts by rows of close-set traders’ buttons…

  • Borders, Louis XVI or Trianon, 1851–65

    Two separate foliate medallions, each with tassel in green, containing motif of musical instruments in terra cotta, with beading along one side; on off-white ground.

  • Borders, Louis XVI or Trianon, 1851–65

    Two separate motifs to be used for dado. The baseboard has a series of horizontal molding strips in grisaille and brownish-yellow. The upper element, or chair rail, has a more…

  • Borders (France), ca. 1850

    Yellow and buff six-point rosettes printed on dark green flock. Between rosettes are rinceaux printed in light green parallel lines; entire design bordered within buff and yellow lines.

  • Borders (possibly England), 1830

    Glossy grisaille design of rosettes bordered by lines in varying shades of gray. Marbled ground of buff and blue wavy lines. grisailles

  • Borders (France), 1870

    Continuous leaf molding surmounted by dentils in grays, blacks, browns and yellow.

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