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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  Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

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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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  Wrapper (Ghana), 20th century

  Cotton, dyed dark brown and block-printed in a dark glossy substance, in geometric patterns in groups of three rows, forming rectangles. The motifs are carved on calabashes then stamped on…

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), 1950s

  Wrapper with a grid of large Xs on a field of small circles. Design created through tied- and stitched-resist patterning methods, in white on a deep blue ground.

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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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  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).…