Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1940

  Design of overlapping fern leaves in silver and white on gray ground.

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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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  Dado (England), 1817–27

  Simulates wooden Chinese fretwork railing with elements repeating horizontally. An illusion of depth is achieved by means of shadows against yellow irregular wave background. Printed in purple on yellow ground.

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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1950

  Horizontal rows of white and red squares in outline, overlapping in such a way as to give an interlocked appearance. Small figures on blue-gray ground.

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  Sidewall (Sweden), 1949–50

  Freely drawn white squares and dark green horizontal lines in nine vertical drop-repeating columns, on pale green ground.

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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1948–50

  Horizontal rows of geometrical, non-representational figures outlined in dark brown. Small figures, on blue-gray ground.

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  Dado (France), 1810

  A horizontal rectangle shows two children. The boy has placed a board over a small brook and the girl is in the act of crossing over. A floral rope marks…

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  Dado (France), ca. 1815

  Large horizontal rectangle containing motif of doves perched on a quiver of arrows. On either side are vertical rectangles the designs of which are identical: a trophy made up of…

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  Dado (France), 1790

  Vase at center, from which are suspended ropes of pearls. Two winged terms at either side catch up the ends of the pearl ropes and with their hands grasp the…

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  Spoon (Norway), 1804

  Round bowl engraved with zig-zag border enclosing fourteen petalled blossom in gilt. Short stem applied with ropetwist segment topped by bosse below squared and trellis pierced terminal fitted with silver…