Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Cameo

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  Stove Tile (Germany), late 16th century

  Above a shaped shield, a bearded male half-figure supports on its head a basket of fruit.

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  Pair Of Tiles (England), 1888–1898

  Pair of square tiles of reddish buff clay with bottle-green glaze over incised lions. A) facing right; B) facing left. Faintly visible stamped on back: double wings surrounded by: W.…

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  Sample (USA), 1945–1950

  Sample has a single column of dark yellow elongated diamond shapes on a dark green ground. Over this is a black linear design resembling line arrows and star shapes.

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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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  Button

  On card 10

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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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  Frieze (USA), 1958–60

  Silk screen reproduction of a drapery swag c. 1815-25. Terra cotta colored drapery with band of classical motif in black along bottom edge. White lace attached below this. Printed on…