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  • Spoon (Norway), 1804

    Round bowl engraved with zig-zag border enclosing fourteen petalled blossom in gilt. Short stem applied with ropetwist segment topped by bosse below squared and trellis pierced terminal fitted with silver…

  • Brisé Fan And Case (France), late 19th–early 20th century

    Brisé fan. Painted ivory sticks. Obverse: central cartouche showing a male and female figure in 18th century dress, and two side cartouches containing the implements of music and agriculture. Reverse:…

  • Brisé Fan And Case, early 18th century

    Brisé fan. Ivory sticks painted in oil and finished with Vernis Martin. Obverse: divided into leaf and gorge area, the former decorated with a central cartouche containing an outdoor scene…

  • Cap Crown, early 20th century

    Cap crown of black cotton embroidered in a brilliantly colored large-scale flower design. The embroidery is worked through and almost identical on the reverse. Ticket attached reads: “Mezzo Kevech embroidery,…

  • Brisé Fan And Case, late 19th century

    Brisé fan. Painted ivory sticks. Obverse: figures of man and woman in landscape. Gorge and borders in “Vernis Martin” style, showing floral motifs within miniature cartouches. Reverse: landscape without figures.…

  • Brisé Fan And Case (France), early 19th century

    Brisé fan with pierced horn sticks painted with forget-me-nots, laced with a pale silk ribbon. Fan case has removable lid.

  • Printing Block (India), 1952–53

    Small block for printing embroidery designs. Carved of hard wood and used to print Chickan embroidery patterns. Shows a design of two roosters in profile with plant forms in between.

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), early 20th century

    Narrow geometrical border embroidered in red, white, yellow, orange, and green ramie cross-stitch on old black traders’ cotton

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