Sampler
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oblong sampler worked in browns, blues, greens, yellows, red, pink, and white silk on a white linen ground. At the left edge, a small panel of withdrawn element work. At the right end, vertical bands of whitework floral borders in satin and stem stitches. In the center, colored silk work in satin stitch of an urn of flowers, a bird with a garland in its beak, a monkey feeding a bird, and flower and vine borders.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Myra and William H. Mathers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2003-14-25
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and cotton embroidery, linen warp, cotton weft Technique: embroidery in satin and stem stitch, withdrawn element work.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 34 × 74.3 cm (13 3/8 × 29 1/4 in.)