Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Band (Greece), 17th century

  Fragment of border, cream linen ground embroidered in red, green, white and black silk. Highly stylized plant forms with birds and stags confronted. Narrow guard borders.

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  Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

  Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

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  Purse (Greece), 1920s

  Flat square purse with top snap opening and gilded metal chain for carrying, beige satin lining and fittings. Made from the sleeve of a peasant woman’s blouse of the 19th…

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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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  Textile (Greece)

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  Handkerchief (Greece)

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  Bowl (China)

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  Bowl (China)

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  Handscreen, late 19th–early 20th century

  Hand screen with a round leaf and carved and pierced wood handle. Silk leaf embroidered with silk showing various bird species among trees and flowering bushes. Two silk tassels.

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  Handscreen, late 19th–early 20th century

  Hand screen with a round leaf and carved and pierced wood frame and handle. Silk leaf embroidered with silk in satin stitch showing peacocks and other birds among flowers. Two…