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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…

  • Quilt (France), early 18th century

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

  • 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.…

  • Fragment (Afghanistan), before 1906

    Scaled and blurred medium-scale geometric design in drimson, gold, rust, white, and green on ground in shades of deep blue. two crimson twill selvedges with paired white pencil stripes.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Cap (Afghanistan), mid-19th century

    Undyed cotton quilted into narrow ribs, possibly over cording. Cording is over embroidery of coarse satin stitches in orange, black, yellow and green in a pattern of various stylized floral…

  • Cap (Afghanistan), 19th century

    Cap decorated with long ovoids surrounded by stylized borders. Multicolored silks are embroidered using coarse satin stitch in purple, pink, yellow and green. Quilted cords make ridges that give stucture…

  • 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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