Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample Book (USA), 1948

  Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Small embroidered picture depicting the story of Judith and Holofernes, worked almost entirely in knot stitches on white silk using colored silks and metallic threads. Judith, holding a sword in…

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Two depths: in foreground, a woman with child speak to a bearded man; in background, an angel looks over a landscape with trees, a castle, and a tent…

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  Embroidered Picture, late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Three depths: in foreground, a landscape with flowers, a pond and animals (from left to right: lion, stag, leopard and unicorn); in middle ground, two women, one holding…

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  Embroidered Picture (Italy), 16th century

  Panel, almost square, of elaborate embroidery in silk and gold on ground of dark green satin. Central oval with embroidered pictorial representation of the “Adoration of the Christ Child,” white…

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  Costume Accessories (uncut) (China), HING

  Uncut pieces for costume accessories have a yellow ground with a lobed blue ring containing a dragon, clouds and waves in many shades of gray.

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  Costume Accessories (uncut) (China), HING

  Uncut pieces for costume accessories have a yellow and blue ground with two half circles containing dragons, clouds, waves, and a flaming pearl in many shades of gray with dark…

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  Costume Accessories (uncut) (China)

  Uncut pieces for costume accessories have a blue ground of two stacked rectangles separated by a yellow line with dragons, clouds, rocks, waves, and a flaming pearl in many shades…

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  Costume Accessories (uncut) (China), late 19th–early 20th century

  Uncut pieces for costume accessories have a yellow and blue ground with dragons, clouds, rocks and waves in many shades of gray.

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  Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile…