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  • Apron (Romania), early 20th century

    Flat panel of coarse stiff wool, woven in a plaid design of red, blue and green. Horizontal bands embroidered in silver (now tarnished) with additional areas in colored wools. Stylized…

  • Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

    Rectangle of plaid with broad central vertical blue band and widely spaced horizontal and vertical stripes in green, yellow, blue, white, on a dark red ground. Horizontal band near bottom…

  • Band (Romania), 18th–19th century

    Rectangular piece for a cap with a double row of close-set medium scale floriated crosses in green, yellow, blue, tan and black silks with alternating silver or black centers on…

  • Cap Fragment (Romania), 19th century

    Small-scale allover design of diamonds framed within interlocking S-scroll borders in black and yellow silk with accents of dark red wool, white cotton, and turquoise blue silk. Incomplete border section…

  • Scenic – Portfolio, Scenic Portfolio, 1972

    Diament Collection Scenic Portfolio; black and white and color photographic illustrations of scenic wallpapers. The scenics include: Les Grandes Chasses, U.S.A. War of Independence, Classic Landscape, Italian Landscape, Views of…

  • Dinner Knife (USA), 1978

    Serpentine outline, hollow stylized pistol-grip handle with two slots for the fork and spoon. Vertical division between the slots flaring to form an asymmetrical upcurved bulbous demi-lune shaped blade.

  • Elsinore Dinner Knife, 1980

    Integral handle and blade with tapering rounded tip. Waisted neck flaring into rectangular cushion-form handle with slightly tapering, upturned blunt terminal.

  • Signature Collection: Picnic Flatware Dinner Knife, 1986

    Flat rectangular aluminum handle with brushed surface, adonized green. Rectangular blade adonized purple with rounded outer point and bevelled cutting edge. Blade affixed to handle side with three silver rivets.

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