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  • Pendant with Madonna Pendant, 19th century

    Bell-shaped pendant, surrounded by wreath of garnets and small rose diamonds, attached to bow-tie pin, again studded with garnets and diamonds. Pendant of thick glass contains an image in gold…

  • Ashtray

    Square plate of clear glass with imbedded bubbles; Brown and yellow trim around edge and in center; Central farmer figure

  • Ashtray (Sweden), 1942

    Nearly vertical sides, flattened to form oval. White body, treated with metal oxides: cloudy greenish gray outside, streaky yellow and brown converging into pale blue area at the bottom inside.…

  • Pendant, ca. 1814

    Medal commemorating Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Obverse shows laureate head of the Emperor, and the inscription: ALEXANDER I. IMP. RUSSORUM. Uniface, in contemporary ornate frame with suspension ring.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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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