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Tablecloth (Germany), 19th century
Design of six large medallions containing a scene from Lohengrin. Border around the cloth has interlacing bands forming circles and a lyre between confronted swans. Large monogram: E.S.H.
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Cap Crown, early 20th century
Cap crown of black cotton embroidered in a brilliantly colored large-scale flower design. The embroidery is worked through and almost identical on the reverse. Ticket attached reads: “Mezzo Kevech embroidery,…
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Panel (Algeria), 18th–19th century
Small hanging or shawl of fine, loosely woven linen, embroidered in silk in blue, violet, red, olive green, pink and white. Design symmetrically arranged, of stylized plants with spiky, angular…
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Tablecloth (USA), 1926
Tablecloth with a repeat of large squares formed by grouped warps.
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Tablecloth (India)
Multicolored design of a man on a platform with musical instruments – drum and bells – with large urn of flowers and a bird. Design is repeated twelve times around…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Long band composed of three shorter pieces stitched together. All-over embroidery in irregularly interlaced pattern of bands striped in three shades of brown. One selvage present, other long edge cut…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Natural, brown, and rust-red strips of plain woven raffia stitched together on long edges, finished with buttonhole embroidery and raffia pompoms.
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Fragment (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Fragment of bark cloth with a center field of alternating black and natural triangles, with borders on two sides of natural color with a single black stripe in the center.
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