Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Belt (Russia), late 19th century

  Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

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  Textile (Russia)

  Floral serpentines brocaded in colored silks on background of gold and silver arranged in vertical stripes.

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  Tablecloth (Germany), 19th century

  Design of six large medallions containing a scene from Lohengrin. Border around the cloth has interlacing bands forming circles and a lyre between confronted swans. Large monogram: E.S.H.

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  Capelet (Russia), 18th century

  Part of a garment made from silver brocade with salmon-colored silk ruffles and lined with twill in natural wool.

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  Textile (Russia), 18th century

  Diagonal repeat of large symmetrical tulip-like flowers with smaller tulip and broad-toothed leaves on either side of stem. Diamond rosette diaper filling interstices. In tarnished white metal threads in plain…

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  Textile (Laos), 1900–1950

  Three bands of various cloth weaves: plain cloth top border, plain cloth with weft ikat in center band, fancy compound cloth lower border. Wide stright tubular skirt made up of…

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  Textile (Russia), 18th–19th century

  Coarse white satin with design in silver foil of horizontal-vertical continuous repeat of pointed-arm crosses in a continuous interlaced framework. Eight-pointed stars, formed by interstices, are decorated with tracery.

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  Trimming (Russia), 19th–20th century

  Red, white and black geometric pattern.

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  Fragment (Russia), 19th–mid-20th century

  Multicolored border lace in a serpentine pattern.

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  Fragment (Russia), 19th–20th century

  Pattern of floral blossoms, scalloped on one side, in red, white and blue.