Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Drawing (Italy)

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  Box And Cover (Denmark), 20th century

  Cover: figure of a white reclining cat, ears and eyes touched with color. Copenhagen mark in underglaze blue. Box: irregular shape with frieze of grey-painted mice. Projection forms right rear…

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  Sample Book (USA), 1948

  Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

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  Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

  Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

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  Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

  Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

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  Borders, Peer Gynt, 1950–51

  Serpentine border in five colors with stylized tulips and other flowers. Scalloped lower edge, included in the same sheet is smaller serpentine border of leaves and buds to be used…

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  Blouse Pieces (Philippines), early 20th century

  Bodice (c) of sheer fine piña cloth with tiny white cotton floral sprig embroidered at widely spaced intervals. Shallow oval neckline faced with cotton cloth. Sides not seamed. Separate sleeves…

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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…

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  Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

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

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  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…