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  • Fan Leaf, late 18th century

    Fan leaf. Parchment painted in the neoclassical taste. Obverse: grisaille border of swans with swags. Three center panels divided by trompe-l’oeil pleats and smoking brazier motifs. At center, within a…

  • 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.

  • Fan Leaf

    Fan leaf. Bobbin and needle lace applied on net. Thick patterned border enclosing two sprays of plants and the large central monogram “LEM”.

  • 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…

  • Fan Leaf, late 19th–early 20th century

    Black fan leaf painted with gouache showing sprays of purple and white lilac flowers.

  • Fan Leaf, late 19th–early 20th century

    Painted black fan leaf showing a group of figures in Pierrot costume, with flames.

  • Fan Leaf, late 19th–early 20th century

    Fan leaf. Black silk painted with gouache showing a large group of birds fishing off a bridge with bird spectators in a row above.

  • Fan Leaf, late 19th–early 20th century

    Red silk leaf painted with gouache showing birds on a flowering branch looking at two miniature landscape scenes.

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