Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
name: label: For
content: Matilde Thompson
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sampler is divided into compartments with vases, birds, and flowers. Those compartments with text are composed in the form of a rebus or pictogram. Sampler is edged with tatting. Contains the following text in Spanish:
label: Description
content: Cuando se (corona) un gusto
label: Description
content: Por dos (corazónes) fieles
label: Description
content: Una (llave) los maneja
label: Description
content: Y una (flecha) los sostiene
label: Description
content: En este (urna) yace
label: Description
content: Un (corazón) que ha sufrido
label: Description
content: De amor lo (cadena) dura
label: Description
content: Y la (flecha) del olbido
label: Description
content: Vivimos felices
label: Description
content: Amor nos une
label: Description
content: Para Matilde Thompson
label: Description
content: English translation:
label: Description
content: When a desire is (crowned)
label: Description
content: By two faithful (hearts)
label: Description
content: A (key) controls them
label: Description
content: And an (arrow) sustains them
label: Description
content: In this (urn) rests
label: Description
content: A (heart) that has suffered
label: Description
content: From love's cruel (chains)
label: Description
content: And the (arrow) of forgetfulness
label: Description
content: We live happily
label: Description
content: Love unites us
label: Description
content: For Matilde Thompson
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-69-132
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen and silk embroidery, linen foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave Label: Linen embroidered in linen and silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 27 x 32.1 cm (10 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.)