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Curtain Panel (China), 19th century
Allover floral design in polychrome on a natural-colored ground.
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Curtain Panel, 18th–early 19th century
Vertical curtain panel with four broad vertical bands; each filled with a single broad serpentine band in shaded blue with a small blaze in each scallop and with a straight…
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Curtain Panel (France), 1800–1850
Part of a white muslin curtain embroidered in white. Design has a repeating pattern of vases with flowers connected by garlands. Both edges scalloped.
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Border (France), 1835–45
Panels framed in grisaille containing alternately a mask centered within leaf forms and griffons, and a jewelled escutcheon. Below, a grisaille band along which at regular intervals are yellow gems.
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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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Overskirt (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Center field of large squares of diamonds and trellis patterns in dark brown and natural pile embroidery. Wide border with interlacing pattern on three sides, edged with buttonhole embroidery in…
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Textile (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Rectangular panel made from two shorter pieces sewn together. Asymetrical abstract design in cream-colored plain weave fabric appliqued onto the same with dark brown raffia in buttonhole stitch. All edges…
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