Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Fan Leaf, late 18th century

  Fan leaf. Parchment painted in the neoclassical taste. Obverse: grisaille border of swans with swags. Three center panels divided by trompe-l’oeil pleats and smoking brazier motifs. At center, within a…

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  Fan Leaf

  Fan leaf. Bobbin and needle lace applied on net. Thick patterned border enclosing two sprays of plants and the large central monogram “LEM”.

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

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  Textile (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Long strip of woven cotton with a simple woven windowpane check; a wide stripe down the center is edged with light blue and has two parallel lines of white ikat.

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  Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1950

  Central medallion shows a man and a crowned woman with lettering above their heads reading OKASA AKA UNI. The medallion is derived from one designed to commemorate the Silver Jubilee…

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  Fragment (Nigeria), mid-20th century

  Reversible square fragment of dark red, with a center band of blue, yellow and white weft floats which form a geometric pattern.

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  Fan Leaf, late 19th–early 20th century

  Black fan leaf painted with gouache showing sprays of purple and white lilac flowers.

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  Fan Leaf, late 19th–early 20th century

  Painted black fan leaf showing a group of figures in Pierrot costume, with flames.

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  Fan Leaf, late 19th–early 20th century

  Fan leaf. Black silk painted with gouache showing a large group of birds fishing off a bridge with bird spectators in a row above.

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  Fan Leaf, late 19th–early 20th century

  Red silk leaf painted with gouache showing birds on a flowering branch looking at two miniature landscape scenes.