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Sugar Bowl And Lid (USA), 1825–50
Ovoid body on spreading foot, with bead edging and fret band; two scrolled handles. Cover in concave tiers, with figure of standing Chinese holding a bamboo staff. Engraved on one…
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Sugar Bowl And Lid (Italy), ca. 1800
Four-lobed oval plan with curved walls. Four-lobed dome cover with knob shape of a hip and leaf. Blue-gray body. Bowl and cover each decorated with two oval medallions with polychromed…
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Sugar Bowl And Lid (England), 1726–27
(a) Hemispherical bowl on molded, domed foot, the rim reinforced. (b) Domed cover with ring to serve as handle or as foot ring. Engraved on side: unicorn’s head.
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Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century
Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.
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Sugar Bowl And Lid (USA), 1958
Eggshell-colored (a) softly rounded flaring sugar bowl with edge cut in boat-like shape above inner rim. (b) lid: culminating in plain, truncated knob.
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Wrapper (Ghana), 20th century
Cotton, dyed dark brown and block-printed in a dark glossy substance, in geometric patterns in groups of three rows, forming rectangles. The motifs are carved on calabashes then stamped on…
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Wrapper (Nigeria), 1950s
Wrapper with a grid of large Xs on a field of small circles. Design created through tied- and stitched-resist patterning methods, in white on a deep blue ground.
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Textile (Cote d’Ivoire), 1964
Panel composed of eight strips sewn side-to-side. An overall checkerboard pattern of deep blue and white is accented with multicolored horizontal stripes and supplementary weft patterns.
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Wrapper (Nigeria), mid- 20th century
Wrapper with a checkerboard of rectangles separated by rows of dots. Each rectangle is filled alternately with a floral pattern or rows of small triangles. Design reserved in white on…
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Wrapper (Ethiopia), 1969
Two panels of sheer white cotton seamed together with a 6 3/4 inch border at both end. Bands and borders are a geometric pattern of triangles, diamonds and chevrons in…
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