Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Curtain Panel (China), 19th century

  Allover floral design in polychrome on a natural-colored ground.

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  Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

  Brisé fan. Celluloid stick with white, uncurled ostrich feathers.

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  Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

  Brisé fan. Tortoise shell sticks with black ostrich feathers, graded larger toward center; smaller tips are massed on outer guard.

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  Band (Greece), 17th century

  Fragment of border, cream linen ground embroidered in red, green, white and black silk. Highly stylized plant forms with birds and stags confronted. Narrow guard borders.

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  Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

  Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

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  Purse (Greece), 1920s

  Flat square purse with top snap opening and gilded metal chain for carrying, beige satin lining and fittings. Made from the sleeve of a peasant woman’s blouse of the 19th…

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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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  Brisé Fan, ca. 1875

  Brisé fan. tortoise shell sticks connected with brown ribbon; tortoise shell bail. In box with tan paper tooled in gilt.

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  Brisé Fan, early 19th century

  Brisé fan. Bone sticks pierced with small spider-like figure repeated with variations in all-over design forming three circular medallions in center portion of field, with a band above and below.