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  • Printing Seal (Costa Rica), 15th century

    Small reddish-brown cylinder in a high-relief of a simple running fret pattern which may represent snakes. Inside each of the frets is a head with two eyes, each one slightly…

  • Vase (USA), ca. 1900

    Round low body, with bulging midriff and flared lip in turquoise.

  • Woman’s Skirt (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Woven length of warp and weft ikat (jaspeado) plaid in bands of pink, yellow, black, blue, and white on a green ground.

  • Dinner Plate (France), ca. 1937

    Circular plate with red-orange enamel ground featuring geometric decoration of two wide L-shaped gilded bands and one wide L-shaped platinum band. Plain white glaze on reverse. (One of a set…

  • Imperial Hotel Dinner Plate, 1962

    Concave circular plate decorated with abstract enamel decal with pattern of interlocking circles in red, pale blue, yellow and green, all outlined in black. Gilded “mon” insignia over circle decoration…

  • Dish (Costa Rica), 1000–1500

    Metate in the form of a jaguar.

  • Sampler (Sri Lanka), 1956

    Part of Singalese alphabet above figures of lion and woman carrying pot.

  • Dinner Plate (France), ca. 1788

    Circular molded plate with broad rim painted in purple ground with continuous enameled and gilded floral swags in blue, pink, and green, with gilded scallops. Center with floral border, gilded…

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