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  • Textile (Portugal), 19th century

    Part of cover or curtain, of cotton striped in blue and white with printed designs in stripes. In blue, a vase with flowers; in white, groups of dogs alternating with…

  • Panel (possibly Portugal), 18th century

    White silk floral damask embroidered with scattered animals, birds and insects in colored silks and metal threads. With an embroidered obelisk surmounted by a coronet with serpents on either side.…

  • Floor Tile (possibly Portugal), 16th–early 17th century

    Square tile of buff clay with thin underfired opaque grayish-white glaze. Underglaze blue painting of diagonally placed heraldic shield with eagle and three pointed arches. Above, helmet with plumes, and…

  • Textile (Portugal), late 19th century

    Chintz with a brilliant blue ground showing a coarse chinoiserie design in red, yellow, blue, black, brown and green. Two groups of Chinese figures in staggered repeat.

  • Band (Portugal), early 17th century

    Lace band in which ships alternate with mythical sea creatures. With attached border of stylized heart-shaped forms, taken from design by Parasole of 1597.

  • Panel (Portugal), ca. 1600

    Panel of lace with three horizontal bands divided into eight squares each, depicting scenes from the biblical story in which Judith severs Holoferne’s head to save her people. With geometric…

  • Garment (Portugal), 18th century

    Small dress of light brown silk, scalloped at sleeves and hem; embroidered with flowers, leaves and scrolls in colored silks and metal (gold and silver wound around a silk core).…

  • Panel (possibly Portugal), 18th century

    Central pale blue field with three borders: inner narrow, deep red; yellow main wide, and outer light blue. Pale blue field: central fountain within an architectural frame the foal point…

  • Bedcover (Portugal), late 19th century

    Unlined bedcover made of two full widths and part of another of printed fabric with fringe on four sides. Pattern composed of two stripes. The wider a flowering tree on…

  • Quilt (Portugal), 1840

    Straight repeat of Chinese-style figures flanking a Chinese-style urn containing flowers. The quilted pattern is a “fish scale” for field and borders. A cotton thread of various light tones used…

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