Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

  Brisé fan. Celluloid stick with white, uncurled ostrich feathers.

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  Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

  Brisé fan. Tortoise shell sticks with black ostrich feathers, graded larger toward center; smaller tips are massed on outer guard.

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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, Combat de Coqs (Cock Fight), 1947

  Printed square scarf with center blue ground with white roosters detailed in black linework. White border with loose linework around center square with pink line to frame and another white…

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  Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

  Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

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  Nightcap (France), 18th century

  Tall man’s cap of brilliant yellow silk embroidered with floral vines in silver metallic yarns. Lower edge turns up in the bicorne style.

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  Tile (USA), ca. 1880

  Blue square with flat border. Relief design of a vine with four leaves forming a circle, on a textured ground.

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  Nightcap (France), ca. 1730

  Man’s nightcap with a rounded crown and turned-up brim. The fabric has a green silk satin ground with a woven pattern of flowers and arabesques in cream silk. The brim…

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  Purse (Greece), 1920s

  Flat square purse with top snap opening and gilded metal chain for carrying, beige satin lining and fittings. Made from the sleeve of a peasant woman’s blouse of the 19th…

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  Brisé Fan, ca. 1875

  Brisé fan. tortoise shell sticks connected with brown ribbon; tortoise shell bail. In box with tan paper tooled in gilt.