Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Drawing, Cypress Trees of Chapultepec, Mexico, March 14, 1892

  Vertical view of a group of trees including the lower portion of an enormous trunk at right and a buttressed wall in the right background. High bottom margin.

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  Drawing, Cypress Trees, Chapultepec, Mexico, February 18, 1892

  Horizontal view of a goup of trees shown against a background of a wood. High bottom margin.

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  Belt (Russia), late 19th century

  Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

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  Textile (Russia)

  Floral serpentines brocaded in colored silks on background of gold and silver arranged in vertical stripes.

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  Capelet (Russia), 18th century

  Part of a garment made from silver brocade with salmon-colored silk ruffles and lined with twill in natural wool.

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  Tray (England), 1823–24

  Broad cast ornamental border bearing marks, and figures and animals of ten classical hunt scenes among flowers and foliations. Four foliated feet terminate in dolphins’ heads. Scroll and floral chasing.…

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  Shawl (Mexico), late 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow shawl of cream colored cotton embroidered at the ends and along the sides in colored silks and paillettes in a leaf and bow-knot design. Scalloped ends of netting…

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  Textile (Russia), 18th century

  Diagonal repeat of large symmetrical tulip-like flowers with smaller tulip and broad-toothed leaves on either side of stem. Diamond rosette diaper filling interstices. In tarnished white metal threads in plain…

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  Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

  Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.

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  Textile (Portugal), 19th century

  Part of cover or curtain, of cotton striped in blue and white with printed designs in stripes. In blue, a vase with flowers; in white, groups of dogs alternating with…