Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Beaker (Sweden), 1760

  Tall flaring body with punched lambrequin motif above engraved shell and scroll band and initials E.H.S. Wavy relief band at top and bottom. Flaring gadrooned foot, with traces of gilding.…

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  Beaker (Sweden), ca. 1946

  Straight, flaring body on flaring foot. Royal blue tone on edge and inside bottom, fading out toward middle. Encased decoration of gray semicircles, bell flowers and dots.

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  Beaker (Peru), 400–600

  Concave, flaring sides, and flat bottom. Body covered in white slip and painted with large face of snake with bat headdress, and horizontally displayed body with spiny, curling tail.

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  Beaker, ca. 1700–25

  Four Continents

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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 Fragment (Indonesia), 19th century

  Red silk brocaded cloth (kain songket) with all-over geometric pattern of stars and rosettes in gold brocade, with wide panel at one end showing the “tumpal” motif (row of isosceles…

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  Beaker (USA), ca. 1910

  Straight beaker, rounded at bottom. On sides, tooled irregular nubs. Greenish-hold iridescence.

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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…