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  • Mat (USA), ca. 1920

    Small mat with a design of a winged griffon within a shield shape. Inspired by the crest of the Borghese family and was copied from a Venetian chalice veil made…

  • Mat (USA), ca. 1920

    Eight-sided mat made of unbleached linen and ornamented with embroidery and bordered with woven picots and small tassels.

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1950

    Sarong with horizontal repeat of large-scale curving floral spray (“buketan” motif) surrounded by birds and butterflies in black, red, and blue on undyed ground. Narrow black side borders with blue…

  • Valance (Germany), late 18th–early 19th century

    Valence with scalloped border in floral printed cotton with the edges bound in blue tape. The pattern has natural-size flowers and leaves in violet, blue, green, yellow, red, and brown…

  • Valance (England), ca. 1790

    Cotton printed with design of vertical stripes with alternating rows of flowering vines or scattered blooms.

  • Printing Block (India), 1952–53

    Small block for printing embroidery designs. Carved of hard wood and used to print Chickan embroidery patterns. Shows a design of two roosters in profile with plant forms in between.

  • Valance (Russia), 19th century

    Symmetrical design of horse drawn coach in profile on either side of tripartite domed building. Many incidental human and plant forms. White on white with squared mesh ground. Symmetrical vermicular…

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