Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Woman’s Mantle (chyrpy) (Turkmenistan), 19th century

  Woman’s white cotton chyrpy embroidered with silk and wool felt appliqué in red, green, yellow, blue and magenta. Vertical stalks of highly stylized tulips rise from the hem, and a…

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  Ceiling Paper (USA), 1890

  Fine network formed by delicate geometrical scrolls embellished with small floral ropes and flower clusters. Printed in gold, silver, pink, green, white on pale blue ground.

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  Ceiling Paper (USA), ca. 1888

  Twisting acanthus octagonal framework centered with leafy forms interlock in all-over pattern.

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  Ceiling Paper (USA), 1900–1915

  Diagonal rows of scroll-enframed figures of various shapes. A near geometrical feeling results. Figures are not large. The most elaborate motif has leafy forms in pink and silver.

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  Ceiling Paper (USA), 1887–95

  A series of approximately circular figures, the largest of which has scrolled frame with red center motifs. Printed in gold, white and red on dull yellow embossed ground.

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  Ceiling Paper (USA), 1885–89

  Bold leafy scrolls with small pink roses alternate in checkered fashion with delicate ropes of small flowers forming eight-pointed star centered with small flower and bud. Printed on pink ground.

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  Box And Cover (Denmark), 20th century

  Cover: figure of a white reclining cat, ears and eyes touched with color. Copenhagen mark in underglaze blue. Box: irregular shape with frieze of grey-painted mice. Projection forms right rear…

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  Box And Cover, 19th century

  Oval bent wood box. Cover with hemispherical handle at center and notches on two sides. Burned wood decoration showing abstracted scattered flowers and a continuous undulating line.

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  Box And Cover (Japan), late 19th century

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  Box And Cover, 19th century

  Cylindrical body on spreading foot. Green ground with sprig decoration showing off-white relief decoration of classical figure groups.