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  • Letter Case, 18th century

    Letter case of blue silk taffeta embroidered with straw in a symmetrical floral design. Fiber is couched flat, twisted and braided. Worked as a single panel; lined with tan silk.

  • Tile (USA), ca. 1880

    Blue. Framed by plants, or swan floats on a pond.

  • Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

    Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

  • Saucer, ca. 1800

    Straight with flaring edge. Overglaze decoration: band of blue and yellow, divided by scrolled undulating lines. Gold lines.

  • Saucer, 1790

    Curved shape, reeding on the outside. Decoration of underglaze blue “strohblumen” pattern.

  • Saucer, ca. 1790

    Curved, with “strohblumen” pattern in underglaze blue.

  • Band (Morocco), 18th century

    Natural color linen worked in red silk with the design reserved in the linen outlined in green silk. Details of decoration in green silk. Main design consists of a fountain…

  • Saucer (France), mid-18th century

    Saucer of pinkish buff clay with grayish glaze. Polychrome painting of bird with long tail on blossoming tree branch flowers and pagoda. On edge, yellow and brown lines, the innermost…

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