Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Square (Iran), 19th century

  Pink and yellow flowers on a net ground.

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  Textile (Iran), 10th–13th century

  Vertical rows of medium-sized ogives bordered with broad continuous bands of Kufic lettering and enclosing confronted peacocks with tails spread to top of a Tree of Life between them. Winged…

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  Fragments (Iran)

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  Textile (Iran), 17th century

  Repeats of a floral design in tan on blue background. Border with flowers and animals in multicolored silk. Lined in red wool.

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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Table cover edged with insertions of darned net. Insertions in multi-colored silk and metallic thread in floral serpentine.

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Cream-colored linen table cover, with wide border designs worked in polychrome silks of pale green, yellow, pale rose, light blue, dark blue and dark green. Edged with border of dark…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Table cover or “paño de ofrenda” of white hand woven linen embroidered in light brown linen thread. Cutwork squares and borders are worked in white and brown thread. Traditional stylized…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Oblong table cover of hand-woven linen of sheer open weave, embroidered in brown and white silk in cross stitch. Allover pattern arranged in squares of highly stylized floral or lily…

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  Fragment (Iran)

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  Door Knocker (Spain), 16th century

  Figure of a collared dog with open mouth, twisted tail curved over back, and sphere between the forepaws. Body incised with markings simulating fur. Hind legs terminate in pierced circlets.