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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  Band (Greece), 17th century

  Fragment of border, cream linen ground embroidered in red, green, white and black silk. Highly stylized plant forms with birds and stags confronted. Narrow guard borders.

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  Waistcoat (England), late 18th–early 19th century

  Short waistcoat in reddish-pink satin with small, dark green cut velvet repeating buds in a heart-shaped framework. Printed cotton facing to fronts in multi-colored stripes and white lotus shapes. Undyed…

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  Waistcoat

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  Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

  Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

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  Fragment (Iran)

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  Waistcoat, 18th century

  Man’s coat of white cotton, lined with white linen, with deep cuff ornamentation, all of white quilting with sections of punched work and embroidered French knots. The design is an…