Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  • Border (China), 19th century

    Valance or border in heavy white cotton embroidered in blue cotton with a main design of a crow in flight appearing between two sprays of fruit-bearing branches. Flowers, butterflies and…

  • Textile (Laos), 1900–1950

    Three bands of various cloth weaves: plain cloth top border, plain cloth with weft ikat in center band, fancy compound cloth lower border. Wide stright tubular skirt made up of…

  • Hanging (India), 1700–1750

    Hanging with part of one border cut out to shape it to coverlet use. Two large curving sprays with various large, carefully shaded flowers and large curving jagged leaves, and…

  • Brooch (France), ca. 1830–40

    In the form of three berries, with gold leaves and stems. Eleven diamonds, fifty-eight rubies. One loose berry was repaired in 1957 (see object card for details).

  • Hanging (China), 19th century

    Flying phoenix holding curving sprays of tree peony in deep blue cut velvet on a rectangular foundation of tarnished gold. Border of stylized lotus and leaves reserved in gold on…

  • Hanging, Sailors Take Warning, ca. 1928

    Landscape with high sky, in bright pink, blues, green, black silk and off-white chenille wefts, on bright orange warps.

  • Hanging, 18th century

    Large embroidered panel with a field filled with floral boteh forms and a deep border with open flower heads and curving vines and leaves. The field has an eight-pointed star…

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