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  • Tray (England), 1823–24

    Broad cast ornamental border bearing marks, and figures and animals of ten classical hunt scenes among flowers and foliations. Four foliated feet terminate in dolphins’ heads. Scroll and floral chasing.…

  • Tray (India), 1801–50

    Four-lobed square form composed of flat base with slightly out-curved, raised scalloped rim; floor of tray and inner and outer rim decorated overall with conventionalized hammered floral motives.

  • 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.

  • Tray (Italy), 1958

    Rectangular tray of white clay, with up-turned edges. On dark gray ground, underglaze sgraffito decoration of three female heads.

  • 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…

  • Bark Cloth, Large panel of tapa cloth, 19th or early 20th century

    Large panel of tapa cloth. Thick white fabric made from beaten bark, painted in rust and brown in design of three rows of rectangles enclosing striated angular forms. Rows are…

  • Tapa Cloth, Tapa cloth panel, ca. 1924

    Square of tapa cloth with pattern in squares filled with diagonal stripes and diamond shapes in horizontal arrangment in shades of dark brown.

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