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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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