Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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…

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  Quilt (France), early 18th century

  Small oblong quilt of white cotton with central design and all-over stylized leaf and vine pattern.

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  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.…

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  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…

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  Quilt (possibly England), mid- 19th century

  Small quilt of printed cotton with the face in a foliage design of brown, green, red, and light blue. Foliage appears in irregularly curved enframements. Reverse has small scale design…

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  Quilt (France), mid-19th century

  Marseilles-style white quilt with elaborate floral borders with pineapple and foliage in a symmetrical arrangement. Four double-headed eagles in the center.

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  Quilt (England), ca. 1830

  Large-scale pillar pattern in striped effect of reds and blues and reserved white. Design shows an elaborate capital surrounded by fruit and flower clusters. On a strong red ground, festooned…

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  Quilt (England or United States), 18th century

  Complete quilt of copperplate printed cotton, with a design in red on a white ground. The design shows men and women dancing in the yard outside a cottage, a windmill,…

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  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.

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  Quilt (USA), mid-19th century

  Small quilt of white cotton with applied design in red and green printed cotton, forming an all-over pattern. Piece edged by same green printed cotton; quilted in the ground.