Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Textile (Portugal), 19th century

  Part of cover or curtain, of cotton striped in blue and white with printed designs in stripes. In blue, a vase with flowers; in white, groups of dogs alternating with…

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  Panel (possibly Portugal), 18th century

  White silk floral damask embroidered with scattered animals, birds and insects in colored silks and metal threads. With an embroidered obelisk surmounted by a coronet with serpents on either side.…

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  Floor Tile (possibly Portugal), 16th–early 17th century

  Square tile of buff clay with thin underfired opaque grayish-white glaze. Underglaze blue painting of diagonally placed heraldic shield with eagle and three pointed arches. Above, helmet with plumes, and…

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  Textile (Portugal), late 19th century

  Chintz with a brilliant blue ground showing a coarse chinoiserie design in red, yellow, blue, black, brown and green. Two groups of Chinese figures in staggered repeat.

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  Band (Portugal), early 17th century

  Lace band in which ships alternate with mythical sea creatures. With attached border of stylized heart-shaped forms, taken from design by Parasole of 1597.

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  Panel (Portugal), ca. 1600

  Panel of lace with three horizontal bands divided into eight squares each, depicting scenes from the biblical story in which Judith severs Holoferne’s head to save her people. With geometric…

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  Sidewall (Canada), 1963

  Wallpaper reproduction of a pebble mosaic. Rust-tan colored background, fill of black pebbles spotted with white and yellow pebbles in configurations representing pigeons, doves and daisies.

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  Chair (Canada), early 18th century

  This side chair is comprised of turned stretchers, a flat seat, and an open back. The void rectangular area of the chair’s back may have been filled with webbing at…

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  Side Chair (Canada), early 18th century

  This side chair is comprised of turned stretchers, a flat seat, and an open back. The void rectangular area of the chair’s back may have been filled with webbing at…

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  Garment (Portugal), 18th century

  Small dress of light brown silk, scalloped at sleeves and hem; embroidered with flowers, leaves and scrolls in colored silks and metal (gold and silver wound around a silk core).…