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  • Pendant, ca. 1814

    Medal commemorating Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Obverse shows laureate head of the Emperor, and the inscription: ALEXANDER I. IMP. RUSSORUM. Uniface, in contemporary ornate frame with suspension ring.

  • Seal (France), ca. 1905

    Tall, tapering stem rising from flaring, swirling base, with scrolls on one side. Top of stem scrolled and ending in flat oval bearing the engraved initials “A G” (Adeline Guimard”

  • Textile (Germany for foreign market), mid-20th century

    Printed cotton with yellow and white vertical stripes and a linear design of fish in black. Bubbles throughout.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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