Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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,…

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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.

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  Borders (England), 1820

  Parallel strips of brown bamboo, with highlights, on yellow ground. Eight colors. Two borders included in one width. Shadows falling on ground change direction at approximately mid point of each…

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  Borders (England), 1820–22

  Black parallel bamboo strips on pink ground. Two borders to a width. Shading of strips changes direction approximately half way across each border.

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  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.

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  Tile (USA), ca. 1880

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