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  • Tile (Germany), 16th century

    Within an arched niche are St. Martin and the Beggar. At base are strapwork, pendants, masks, grotesques, and seven figures symbolizing the three ecclesiastical and four cardinal virtues: Faith, Hope,…

  • Tile (USA), ca. 1880

    Blue-green. Design in nine panels: central panel of lily-of-the-valley; flanking panels of raised hobnails; corner panels of one daisy each.

  • Tile (USA), ca. 1880

    Blue square with flat border. Relief design of a vine with four leaves forming a circle, on a textured ground.

  • Tile (USA), ca. 1880

    Blue. Framed by plants, or swan floats on a pond.

  • Tile (USA), ca. 1880

    Amber. All-over pattern of raised rough diamonds with a four-part serrated design pressed in the center of each.

  • Tile (Ottoman Empire (present day Syria)), late 16th–early 17th century

    Square in shape, painted with an 8-pointed blossom in the center, from which radiate stylized floral arabesques and blossoms.

  • Altar Frontal (Italy), 16th century

    Large altar frontal with insertion bands of punto in aria in a reticella style showing an allover pattern of curving lines. Matching border with very deep points.

  • Altar Frontal (Italy), 16th–17th century

    Heavy linen altar frontal with a wide border showing a large-scale design of blossoms or pomegranates within curving circular bands reserved in linen. Narrow border of simple strapwork in the…

  • Altar Frontal (Italy), 17th century

    Small altar frontal with five perpendicular strips of drawn work with a darned pattern of pomegranates and larger leaves in a vine design. Bottom and edge trimmed with narrow bobbin…

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