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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  Sample Book (USA), 1948

  Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

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  Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

  Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

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  Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

  Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

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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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  Sample Book, Wallpaper by Denst and Soderlund, 1952–53

  Includes, with color alternates, the following wallpapers: Trees, Twine, Broken Ladder, Checks, Round, The River, Deep Water, Lakatoi, Dandelion, Chameleon, Intracte, Singora Sail, Talisman. The book is setup to show…

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  Sample Book, Sculptured Wallcovering, 1951

  Samples of wallpaper imitating brick walls, straw matting, stone walls, wood grain, etc., in three-dimensional plastic.

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  Sample Book (Japan), 1927

  Paper-bound book with tipped-in color plates with textile designs, textile samples and painting. Some text in Japanese. Translation of main heading: “Two Great current in Vogue, and Standardizing Colors for…

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  Sample Book (France), 1935–38

  43 examples of wallpaper, some of which have color alternates. 8 have border and chair rail schemes attached. Included are designs in the style of the late 18th century and…