Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  wooden chair with needlepoint upholstery Armchair, 1690–95

  Tall back with straight molded enframement sides and bottom, shaped at top. Crest of pierced volutes and scrolls. Slender arms, scrolled and raked at the knuckles, on turned supports. Flat…

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  Pinch Drinking Glass, 1950

  Heavy clear colorless swelling body pinched at base to form concave panels which resolve into a circular single form 2/3 the distance to the slightly flaring lip. Foot ground into…

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  Flare Drinking Glass, 1950

  Cylindrical body of transparent bluish bubbly glass flares outward to a slightly thickened lip.

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  Flame Drinking Glass, 1950

  Clear colorless swelling body, the heavy foot rotated through 45-degrees to form four curving concave panels which resolve into a circular form 2/3 the distance to the slightly thickened lip.

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  Box And Cover (Denmark), 20th century

  Cover: figure of a white reclining cat, ears and eyes touched with color. Copenhagen mark in underglaze blue. Box: irregular shape with frieze of grey-painted mice. Projection forms right rear…

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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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  Box And Cover, 19th century

  Oval bent wood box. Cover with hemispherical handle at center and notches on two sides. Burned wood decoration showing abstracted scattered flowers and a continuous undulating line.

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  Box And Cover (Japan), late 19th century