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  • Towel End, 18th–19th century

    Towel end made up of three pieces of loosely woven fine cloth with a deep band of embroidery of stylized allover floral design in silver-gilt thread and silk embroidery in…

  • Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

    Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.

  • Bowl (Iran), 14th century

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

  • Towel End, 19th century

    End crossed by two types of shrine forms (?) alternating in blue, green and pink silk silver thread with touches of brown and cream. Fret border in cream and silver…

  • Towel End, 19th century

    Broad lower towel end with a border of drawn work with animals confronting initials “M.I.D.” under coronet and with floral and bird frame; symmetrical flower motif on each end. Broad…

  • Towel End, 19th century

    Towel end with deep border at bottom of three flower heads in drawn work with fine embroidered foliage detail, in white linen thread. Initials “I.A.D.” in symmetrical leaf-framed cartouche above.…

  • Bowl (Italy), mid-20th century

    Smooth, heavy glass body in form of half clam shell with rim extended horizontally on one side; thin, swirling latticino stripes of opaque red encased in translucent white, fanning out…

  • Bowl (Italy), ca. 1954

    Very thin red clay and hand formed. Funnel-shaped with small flat base; edges sharp, irregularly crimped and irregular in outline. Base is glazed but uncolored. Variegated colored glaze applied in…

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