Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Square (Iran), 19th century

  Pink and yellow flowers on a net ground.

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  Square, 18th century

  Coat of arms of a Bishop of the Franciscan Order (Cross, crossed arms with stigmata, above a black bird on a mount against a blue ground) with Bishop’s hat (green…

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  Frieze, Somerset House, 1940

  Design in classic style simulating architectural ornament and showing a horizontal band of curving reeded forms strung side by side on a rod, with leaf swags below enclosing half rosettes.…

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  Frieze, Somerset House, 1940

  Design in classic style simulating architectural ornament and showing a horizontal band of curving reeded forms strung side by side on a rod, with leaf swags below enclosing half rosettes.…

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  Tile (Germany), 16th century

  Within an arched niche are St. Martin and the Beggar. At base are strapwork, pendants, masks, grotesques, and seven figures symbolizing the three ecclesiastical and four cardinal virtues: Faith, Hope,…

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  Frieze (USA), 1885–89

  Large bunches of pink carnations repeat horizontally above a continuous wave. Design richly laid with gold leaf. Floral bands at bottom. Graded cream and brown ground. Gold leaf.

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  Square (Near East), late 19th century

  Square of sheer cream-colored cotton, embroidered on all four sides with colored silks and metal thread. Design of detached motifs: an island with trees; and a galley with oars raised…

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  Square (Germany), 14th century

  Fragment from an altar frontal in coarse cream-colored linen embroidered in silk in red, light green, light blue, and white. In the center field, the Crucifixion: Christ on the cross…

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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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  Square, Still Life with Fruit, 1947