Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Cameo

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  Stove Tile (Germany), late 16th century

  Above a shaped shield, a bearded male half-figure supports on its head a basket of fruit.

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  Pair Of Tiles (England), 1888–1898

  Pair of square tiles of reddish buff clay with bottle-green glaze over incised lions. A) facing right; B) facing left. Faintly visible stamped on back: double wings surrounded by: W.…

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  Sample (USA), 1945–1950

  Sample has a single column of dark yellow elongated diamond shapes on a dark green ground. Over this is a black linear design resembling line arrows and star shapes.

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  Man’s Shirt (Guatemala), 1925–50

  Long straight shirt made of two lengths of heavy white cotton with thin red stripes (two warps, three wefts). Very short narrow sleeves of red cloth with two wide bands…

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  Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950

  Huipil made of three lengths stitched together. Dark blue cotton cloth with double warps and double wefts covered in long red floats. Design of triangles and diamonds in blue, green,…

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  Perraje (shawl) (Guatemala), 1900–1955

  Dark blue weft-ribbed shawl with double warps and wefts. Jaspe pattern in close-set bands with geometric and abstract figurative design in white, red, yellow and green. Warps plaited into deep…

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  Textile (Guatemala), early 20th century

  Square with large plaid in shades of red and white with large central panel of close-set zigzags, stripes and small geometrical figures in shades of bright pink, green, lavender, white…

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  Skirt (Guatemala), 1925–50

  Windowpane red and blue plaid with broad horizontal bands in dark blue and white jaspe stripes with four repeating female figures. Both selvages have dark blue warps.

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  Huipil (uncut) (Guatemala), 1900–1950

  Square panel made of three lengths of plain cloth, stitched together side by side, each with supplementary weft patterning in closely set horizontal rows of stylized human and bird figures.…