Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Dog Figure, 1741

  Figure of a brown-spotted pug with cropped ears and a long tail. Blue collar banded and inscribed in gold “ANO 1741.” Collar secured by padlock.

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  Cat Figure

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  Cat and kitten Figure, late 19th–early 20th century

  Gray, black, and white tabby cat standing on hind legs holds an upraised stick above a mewing kitten lying across its knee, as if in the act of spanking.

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  Chalice Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Square, probably top of chalice cover; cloth of silver, with symmetrical design of stylized plant forms and jars at corners and sides, pointing toward center rosette. Coral beads form leaves…

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  Chalice Cover (Italy), 16th–17th century

  Faded purple ribbed silk ground embroidered in colored silk and metallic thread. Central design shows a cruciform composed of conventionalized flowerheads in profile and S-forms of foliage. Cover design of…

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  Borders (England), 1815–25

  Wide strips of bamboo alternating with two thin strips. Two complete border widths running vertically, beneath which, portion of a third runs horizontally. In each border shading of strips changes…

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  Borders (England), 1820

  Two widths of border included in complete wallpaper width. Bamboo strips in brown, with highlights, closely spaced. Printed on light blue ground.

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  Borders (England), 1820

  Conventionalized brown bamboo strips in high relief against yellow background. The actual ground of the paper is brown. Two borders included in one width.

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  Borders (England), 1820

  Two bamboo trellis borders to the width. Black bamboo on pink ground. Series stops and resumes again at one end.

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  Borders (England), 1822

  Two identical borders included in one width of papers. Four colors on light tan ground. Stripes in cream and orange-brown in varying widths and tones.