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  • Frieze, Somerset House, 1940

    Design in classic style simulating architectural ornament and showing a horizontal band of curving reeded forms strung side by side on a rod, with leaf swags below enclosing half rosettes.…

  • Frieze, Somerset House, 1940

    Design in classic style simulating architectural ornament and showing a horizontal band of curving reeded forms strung side by side on a rod, with leaf swags below enclosing half rosettes.…

  • Frieze (USA), 1885–89

    Large bunches of pink carnations repeat horizontally above a continuous wave. Design richly laid with gold leaf. Floral bands at bottom. Graded cream and brown ground. Gold leaf.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Frieze (USA), 1890–95

    Imitates a flock paper. Scrollwork and clusters of roses. The scrollwork is silvered. Printed in silver, red and pink on graded cream ground.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Tile (Ottoman Empire (present day Syria)), late 16th–early 17th century

    Square in shape, painted with an 8-pointed blossom in the center, from which radiate stylized floral arabesques and blossoms.

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