Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample (USA), 1945–1950

  Sample has a single column of dark green elongated diamond shapes on a dark yellow ground.

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  Playing Card, 19th century

  Rectangular card with black back. Front yellow, with bust of richly dressed woman in oval, painted in red, green and gold; spandrels have floral motifs.

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  Bookpaper

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  Mihrab Tile (Iran), 13th century

  Horizontal rectangle. Raised blue inscription on brown and white scrolled lustre-painted ground with turquoise spots.

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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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