Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  wooden chair with needlepoint upholstery Armchair, 1690–95

  Tall back with straight molded enframement sides and bottom, shaped at top. Crest of pierced volutes and scrolls. Slender arms, scrolled and raked at the knuckles, on turned supports. Flat…

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  Reading chair Armchair, ca. 1720–30

  Form with square tapering seat and tall narrow back upholstered in dark brown nailed leather; back with horizontal U-curved arms at top fitted with hinged, adjustable wooden book rest on…

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  Border (France), mid-18th century

  Shaped border with repeated undulating forms connected by stylized garland. Fond: bride tortillée. Modes: enchainettes, point mignon, mosaique.

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  Border (France), late 18th–early 19th century

  Border with a slightly scalloped border of floral sprays and a powdered-over net of semé de larmes. Fond: bride tortillée. Modes: enchainettes, point mignon, petit réseau, semé de larmes.

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  Border (France), 17th century

  Wide border of linen with areas of drawn work and embroidery in an open pattern of floral sprays and birds with an angel on the right side.

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  Armchair (China (for export)), ca. 1815

  Armchair, square in plan, constructed entirely of bamboo except for caned seat. Back designed with small rectangular openings, each filled with tiny open motif. Similar worked details beneath armrest and…

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  Print (USA)

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  Hanging, Windflower, 1959–60

  Open weave hanging in shades of pinks, reds, oranges and greens.

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  Textile (USA), 1964–66

  Fragment printed in pink, green and orange. Pattern shows large scale swirling “bizarre” design of wings and floral elements.

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  Rosalie Armchair, design: 1850; Crest decoration design: 1849

  A) Upholstered, laminated rosewood back, topped by carved flowers-and-fruit garland. Back frame formed of inverted U-shaped scroll at top and serpentine section at bottom. Serpentine arms join back frame with…