Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  cat Miniature

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  Cat and kitten Figure, late 19th–early 20th century

  Gray, black, and white tabby cat standing on hind legs holds an upraised stick above a mewing kitten lying across its knee, as if in the act of spanking.

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  Band (Greece), 17th century

  Fragment of border, cream linen ground embroidered in red, green, white and black silk. Highly stylized plant forms with birds and stags confronted. Narrow guard borders.

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  Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

  Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

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  Carpet Fragment (England), early 20th century

  Carpet fragment with a medium-scale allover flower and leaf repeat in delft blue, light blue and pale coral. One plain selvage with black cotton warps.

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  Panel (USA), ca. 1880

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  Purse (Greece), 1920s

  Flat square purse with top snap opening and gilded metal chain for carrying, beige satin lining and fittings. Made from the sleeve of a peasant woman’s blouse of the 19th…

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  Textile (India), early 20th century

  Symmetrical horizontal repeat of vase with flowers (two alternating variants) in decorated arabesque framework with filling sprays of twining stems, leaves and flowers. Floral guard band at bottom within decorated…

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  Altar Frontal (Italy), 16th century

  Large altar frontal with insertion bands of punto in aria in a reticella style showing an allover pattern of curving lines. Matching border with very deep points.

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  Altar Frontal (Italy), 16th–17th century

  Heavy linen altar frontal with a wide border showing a large-scale design of blossoms or pomegranates within curving circular bands reserved in linen. Narrow border of simple strapwork in the…