Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler (Germany), 19th century

  Fine stem stitch outlines two coronets, a crest, in blue. The initials W, S punched with buttonhole stitch. AK, JAV, and scrolls printed in blue. Drawn work borders.

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  Sampler (Germany), early 19th century

  Seventy-eight needlework patterns embroidered on a ground of hexagonal mesh. Mounted on stiff green paper.

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  Sampler (Germany), early 19th century

  Twenty-seven patterns embroidered on hexagonal double-ply mesh in small squares; three squares not filled in. Mounted on red paper.

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  Sampler (Germany), early 19th century

  Eleven patterns worked on four-sided double-ply twisted mesh. Mounted on stiff green paper.

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  Sampler, 1800–1850

  Continuous web of knotted netting in about sixteen designs mounted on a long strip of stiff green paper.

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  Sampler, late 18th–early 19th century

  Rectangle of fine linen divided by chain stitch into thirty-five small squares, inside each of which a variety of drawnwork and darning methods are worked in white cotton.

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  Sampler (England), early 19th century

  Cotton embroidered with silk in showing design of a delicate ribbon-tied spray of flowers including an iris, daffodil and thorny stem of roses.

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  Sampler (Mexico), 1744

  Rectangle of rather heavy cream linen, worked in linen in rows of many embroidery stitches, drawnwork. and a few bands of floral designs. At the top right, the initials AMG…

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  Bracelet

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  Bracelet (Italy), 1867

  Gold bracelet set with pietra dura portrait of Frederick Augustus Chauncey, father of donor. Cameo separates to become brooch or pendant.