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  • Textile (Portugal), 19th century

    Part of cover or curtain, of cotton striped in blue and white with printed designs in stripes. In blue, a vase with flowers; in white, groups of dogs alternating with…

  • Panel (possibly Portugal), 18th century

    White silk floral damask embroidered with scattered animals, birds and insects in colored silks and metal threads. With an embroidered obelisk surmounted by a coronet with serpents on either side.…

  • Bedcover (India), 17th century

    Coverlet with a deep red vertical central panel with a large crowned eagle in center, filling of foliage and hippocamps (horses of the sea). Warriors on foot and on horseback…

  • Bedcover (Spain), 18th century

    Large bedcover of cream-colored linen embroidered in light yellow, yellow-green, blue, rose and white silk. The design is laid out in a central panel with a narrow border at the…

  • Floor Tile (possibly Portugal), 16th–early 17th century

    Square tile of buff clay with thin underfired opaque grayish-white glaze. Underglaze blue painting of diagonally placed heraldic shield with eagle and three pointed arches. Above, helmet with plumes, and…

  • Bedcover (Japan), early 19th century

    Bedcover made from five breadths of narrow fabric. Dark blue with soft shades of rose, yellow-orange, pale green and gray-violet. Design shows a large bird with widely-spread wings, long tail…

  • Gloves (Estonia), ca. 1875

    Bright pink gloves in firm stockinette stitch with band of confronted birds and plants around palm in dark brown with touches of blue, white, yellow, and green. Smaller stylized flower…

  • Bedcover (USA), ca. 1850

    White quilted bedcover in an allover rosette design. In the center, a large circular pattern of a rayed sun. At four points around the circle are four American eagles with…

  • Bedcover (France), ca. 1800

    Bedcover with side borders and bolster. The central section shows a center medallion framing a scene of Venus rising from the sea attended by nymphs, cupid, and doves; dolphins swim…

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