Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Belt (Russia), late 19th century

  Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

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  Textile (Russia)

  Floral serpentines brocaded in colored silks on background of gold and silver arranged in vertical stripes.

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  Capelet (Russia), 18th century

  Part of a garment made from silver brocade with salmon-colored silk ruffles and lined with twill in natural wool.

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  Textile (Russia), 18th century

  Diagonal repeat of large symmetrical tulip-like flowers with smaller tulip and broad-toothed leaves on either side of stem. Diamond rosette diaper filling interstices. In tarnished white metal threads in plain…

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  Bowl (Iran), 14th century

  Bulbous bowl with wide lip, under which is a decorative band with text. Repeating pomegranate pattern on body.

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  Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

  Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

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  Textile (Russia), 18th–19th century

  Coarse white satin with design in silver foil of horizontal-vertical continuous repeat of pointed-arm crosses in a continuous interlaced framework. Eight-pointed stars, formed by interstices, are decorated with tracery.

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  Trimming (Russia), 19th–20th century

  Red, white and black geometric pattern.

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  Fragment (Russia), 19th–mid-20th century

  Multicolored border lace in a serpentine pattern.

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  Fragment (Russia), 19th–20th century

  Pattern of floral blossoms, scalloped on one side, in red, white and blue.