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  • Napkin (France), 1910

    Cream-colored napkin or tea cloth embroidered with initials and ornamented with cutwork and lace.

  • 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…

  • Panel (possibly Portugal), 18th century

    White silk floral damask embroidered with scattered animals, birds and insects in colored silks and metal threads. With an embroidered obelisk surmounted by a coronet with serpents on either side.…

  • Floor Tile (possibly Portugal), 16th–early 17th century

    Square tile of buff clay with thin underfired opaque grayish-white glaze. Underglaze blue painting of diagonally placed heraldic shield with eagle and three pointed arches. Above, helmet with plumes, and…

  • Skirt (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Windowpane red and blue plaid with broad horizontal bands in dark blue and white jaspe stripes with four repeating female figures. Both selvages have dark blue warps.

  • Fragment (Burma), early 19th century

    Figural groups from Burmese iconography, in close-set vertical repeat about 16″ high. Blue ground, right half textured with tiny white dots and left half with faint yellow bars suggesting architectural…

  • Skirt (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

    Rectangular panel composed of four strips of woven raffia with twisted warp fringes. Each strip is composed of smaller pieces, stitched together with dark raffia strands.

  • Tape (Burma), 1900–1957

    Geometrical ornament and inscription in the Pali language in red and cream. narrow saffron yellow edges or selvedges. Warp fringe (33cm) at one end.

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