Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Textile (USA), ca. 1942

  Small sample of dark blue silk printed with mottled green dots.

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  Sidewall, Crystals, 1953

  Assortment of large and small widely spaced crystals or snowflakes outlined in black. Some are colored green or blue. Printed on white ground.

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  Woven Pattern (China), 19th century

  Green satin ground with horizontal pattern of flowers and butterflies in purple, blue and yellow silk.

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  Frieze (France), 1800–1805

  Dado pattern of five brightly-colored horizontal bandings. Bottom to top: 1) narrow gold and brown geometric architectural border; 2) gray diamonds; 3) principal banding – pale blue marbleized ground with…

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  Drawing (China)

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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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  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.