Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Apron (Romania), early 20th century

  Flat panel of coarse stiff wool, woven in a plaid design of red, blue and green. Horizontal bands embroidered in silver (now tarnished) with additional areas in colored wools. Stylized…

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  Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

  Rectangle of plaid with broad central vertical blue band and widely spaced horizontal and vertical stripes in green, yellow, blue, white, on a dark red ground. Horizontal band near bottom…

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  Band (Romania), 18th–19th century

  Rectangular piece for a cap with a double row of close-set medium scale floriated crosses in green, yellow, blue, tan and black silks with alternating silver or black centers on…

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  Earrings (India), late 19th century

  Pair of earrings. Turquoise matrix and silver.

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  Earrings (India), late 19th century

  Pair of earrings of gilt metal, filigree, the outer half circle form has suspended white glass pearls and beads in green and turquoise. Inner circle is set with pendants.

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  Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

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  Earrings (USA), ca. 1850

  Pair of earrings of hairi-work woven into spherical and cylindrical forms, mounted in gold.

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  Earrings (Italy), ca. 1860

  “Florentine Mosaic” parure, set in gilt metal filigree and granule decoration surrounding circles (upper portion of earrings), and half-circles of porcelain or enamel. The parure is composed of: brooch; pendant…

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  Cap Fragment (Romania), 19th century

  Small-scale allover design of diamonds framed within interlocking S-scroll borders in black and yellow silk with accents of dark red wool, white cotton, and turquoise blue silk. Incomplete border section…

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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…