Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Earrings (India), late 19th century

  Pair of earrings. Turquoise matrix and silver.

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  Earrings (India), late 19th century

  Pair of earrings of gilt metal, filigree, the outer half circle form has suspended white glass pearls and beads in green and turquoise. Inner circle is set with pendants.

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  Earrings (USA), ca. 1850

  Pair of earrings of hairi-work woven into spherical and cylindrical forms, mounted in gold.

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  Earrings (Italy), ca. 1860

  “Florentine Mosaic” parure, set in gilt metal filigree and granule decoration surrounding circles (upper portion of earrings), and half-circles of porcelain or enamel. The parure is composed of: brooch; pendant…

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  Textile (Thailand), ca. 1960

  Long hadwoven breath, warm burnt-orange, with thick yellow weft and fine magenta warp, giving changeable effect when crumpled. At one end, an inch-wide band in which fine blue weft replaces…

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  Panel (Thailand), mid-20th century

  Long brilliant cerise panel, handwoven. Fine magenta warp of light weight wild silk and thick, flossy weft of bright orange. silk is from worm of East Thailand which feeds on…

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  Sarong (Thailand), 19th century

  Design showing center area broken up on an all-over diamond-shaped pattern containing stylized floral shapes of seated Buddha. Reclining figures in outlines of damond shapes. Two wide borders, interrupted by…

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  Textile (Thailand), ca. 1963

  Brilliant pink material, double cloth, warp printed in large scale pattern derived from an Indian shawl design, in strong greens, red, and purple. The reverse is a strong magenta, with…

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  Panel (Thailand), 1960–69

  Panel of heavy handwoven silk horizontally striped in red, purple, orange, and orange-brown.

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  Sarong Fragment (Thailand), 1900–1950

  Remains of a long rectangular panel: field replaced with ivory cotton end borders reduced to three sections. each band at each end is decorated by pendant forms–two with a red…