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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.

  • Edging (France), 19th century

    Lace band with floss flowers sewn at intervals. Loosely worked undyed silk bobbin lace with a scalloped edge dotted with single flowers and a few small knotted tassels of polychrome…

  • 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…

  • Pleated Fan And Case, late 19th century

    Pleated fan. Cream-colored lace leaf backed with white satin. Mother-of-pearl sticks. Yellow paste jewel at rivet. Brass bail.

  • Pleated Fan And Case, early 20th century

    Pleated fan. Leaf of black mousseline de soie backed with white. Obverse: embroidered with shaped steel sequins, forming three medallions with all-over scroll and leaf designs. Guards and sticks of…

  • Pleated Fan And Case, late 19th–early 20th century

    Pleated mourning fan. Leaf of black organdy. tortoise shell guards and sticks. Black enameled metal bail.

  • Pleated Fan And Case, late 19th–early 20th century

    Pleated fan. Leaf of black chantilly bobbin lace with design of a flower basket in center and scrolls on each side, backed with white georgette crêpe. Guards and sticks of…

  • Pleated Fan And Case, ca. 1900

    Pleated fan. Leaf of black organdy. Obverse: shaped steel sequins embroidered in all-over scroll and floral design. Guards and sticks of a dark reddish-brown tortoise shell.

  • Pleated Fan And Case, late 19th century

    Pleated fan. Leaf of cream-colored Milanese bobbin lace, probably 18th century; it has been cut to make a fan with picot edge added to it.The reverse side of the lace…

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