Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Belt (Russia), late 19th century

  Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

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  Textile (Russia)

  Floral serpentines brocaded in colored silks on background of gold and silver arranged in vertical stripes.

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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…

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  Capelet (Russia), 18th century

  Part of a garment made from silver brocade with salmon-colored silk ruffles and lined with twill in natural wool.

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  Door Knocker (Spain), 16th century

  Figure of a collared dog with open mouth, twisted tail curved over back, and sphere between the forepaws. Body incised with markings simulating fur. Hind legs terminate in pierced circlets.

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  Textile (Russia), 18th century

  Diagonal repeat of large symmetrical tulip-like flowers with smaller tulip and broad-toothed leaves on either side of stem. Diamond rosette diaper filling interstices. In tarnished white metal threads in plain…

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  Door Knocker (Italy), 16th century

  Door knocker. Plate in the form of a grotesque face. Handle is a bird with outstretched wings.

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  Door Knocker (Italy), 17th century

  Door knocker. Large bead at lower center. Handle decorated with leaves in relief. Two rosettes at top of handle.

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  Door Knocker (Italy), 1550–1650

  Floral form.

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  Door Knocker (Italy), 1550–1650

  In the form of two dolphins and a woman’s head.