Band and spot sampler

Textile

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Name/Title

Band and spot sampler

Entry/Object ID

2025.9.7

Description

Sampler with needlepoint borders, lettering and numerals, birds, animals, flowers, grapes, lobster, miscellaneous birds and flower subjects. Largest motif is white church with steeple and priest in black robe. Cross stitch name at bottom: "B.L. Poscharsky."

Textile Type

Woven embroidered sampler

Category

Samplers

Acquisition

Accession

2025.9

Source or Donor

Brooklyn Museum

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Made/Created

Artist

B. L. Poscharsky

Date made

1838

Ethnography

Notes

Possibly Polish or German. Source: Brooklyn Museum.

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

samplers (embroidery)

Dimensions

Dimension Description

45 × 12 1/2 in. (114.3 × 31.8 cm)

Material

Linen

Location

Box

Box 7 (Brooklyn Museum Collection)

Cabinet

Object Cabinet

Room

Studio