EditorialSampler, Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave, A female figure on the left side and a male figure on the right, surrounded by spot motifs of flowering plants. At the bottom center, a basket of fruit with a b...
EditorialSampler, Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave, A female figure on the left side and a male figure on the right, surrounded by spot motifs of flowering plants. At the bottom center, a basket of fruit with a b...
EditorialSampler, Ruth Bolerworth, Medium: silk and metal thread embroidery, wool foundation Technique: cross, tent, satin and stem stitches on plain weave, Alphabets, crowns and verse. Top: Cross borders with trees, flowers, insects, and fruit. Bottom: Scene o...
EditorialSampler, Jean Porter, Medium: silk embroidery on linen Technique: long-armed cross, herringbone, double running, detached looping, buttonhole, and couching stitches on plain weave, Cross borders showing people, animals, a house, Adam and Eve and a bord...
EditorialOctagonal plate with flowering plants and the arms of the Grant family, Octagonal plate of porcelain, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. A group of flowering plants on the shelf, on the wall a spearhead bord...
EditorialOctagonal plate with flowering plants and the arms of the Grant family, Octagonal plate of porcelain, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. A group of flowering plants on the shelf, on the wall a spearhead bord...
EditorialFlight of Hugo de Groot from Loevenstein, Silver Medal. Front: man's bust. Reverse: chest with two crowns, Hugo de Groot, Jan Schmeltzing (I), Leiden, 1669 - 1687, silver (metal), striking (metalworking), d 4.8 cm ? w 54.49 gr.
EditorialPrize pen from Amsterdam, Ganzeveren silver pen with gilt weapon from Amsterdam on the front, Awarded as a prize by the city of Amsterdam, (for students of the Latin school?). Dated, front: 1756. Signed, rear: HOP. Marked: front: coat of arms of Amster...
EditorialLap of lace embroidery with peacocks, Lap of natural-colored lace embroidery, work with twisted threads and through work. In the corner of a linen rag, work with pulled-together threads has made an L-shaped lattice base to which stop-through work has b...
EditorialTournai and Kortrijk captured, Bronze Medal. Obverse: bust of a young man (Lodewijk XIV) within a circle. Reverse: Victory brings two crowns to the French king standing between Leye and Scheldt within a circle, Kortrijk, West Flanders, Tournai, Hainaut...