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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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  Textile (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Long strip of woven cotton with a simple woven windowpane check; a wide stripe down the center is edged with light blue and has two parallel lines of white ikat.

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  Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1950

  Central medallion shows a man and a crowned woman with lettering above their heads reading OKASA AKA UNI. The medallion is derived from one designed to commemorate the Silver Jubilee…

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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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  Fragment (Nigeria), mid-20th century

  Reversible square fragment of dark red, with a center band of blue, yellow and white weft floats which form a geometric pattern.

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  Fragment (Nigeria), 1961

  Narrow-woven light-brown cotton with light-blue stripes, embroidered in a highly abstract pattern in gold-colored rayon thread.

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  Fragment (Nigeria), 1961

  Embroidered sample for a tunic front in light brown and blue striped cotton, pieced together from four narrow strips. The neck opening is indicated, and the front is embroidered with…