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  Textile (Burma)

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  Fragment (Burma), early 19th century

  Figural groups from Burmese iconography, in close-set vertical repeat about 16″ high. Blue ground, right half textured with tiny white dots and left half with faint yellow bars suggesting architectural…

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  Tape (Burma), 1900–1957

  Geometrical ornament and inscription in the Pali language in red and cream. narrow saffron yellow edges or selvedges. Warp fringe (33cm) at one end.

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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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  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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  Manokthiha (Myanmar (formerly known as Burma)), 18th century

  Carved, lacquered and gilded architectural corner element

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  Panel (Thailand), 1960–69

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