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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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1940

  Design of overlapping fern leaves in silver and white on gray ground.

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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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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1950

  Horizontal rows of white and red squares in outline, overlapping in such a way as to give an interlocked appearance. Small figures on blue-gray ground.

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  Sidewall (Sweden), 1949–50

  Freely drawn white squares and dark green horizontal lines in nine vertical drop-repeating columns, on pale green ground.

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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1948–50

  Horizontal rows of geometrical, non-representational figures outlined in dark brown. Small figures, on blue-gray ground.

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Small embroidered picture depicting the story of Judith and Holofernes, worked almost entirely in knot stitches on white silk using colored silks and metallic threads. Judith, holding a sword in…

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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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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Two depths: in foreground, a woman with child speak to a bearded man; in background, an angel looks over a landscape with trees, a castle, and a tent…