Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Frieze, Somerset House, 1940

  Design in classic style simulating architectural ornament and showing a horizontal band of curving reeded forms strung side by side on a rod, with leaf swags below enclosing half rosettes.…

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  Frieze, Somerset House, 1940

  Design in classic style simulating architectural ornament and showing a horizontal band of curving reeded forms strung side by side on a rod, with leaf swags below enclosing half rosettes.…

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  Frieze (USA), 1885–89

  Large bunches of pink carnations repeat horizontally above a continuous wave. Design richly laid with gold leaf. Floral bands at bottom. Graded cream and brown ground. Gold leaf.

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  Embossed Wool

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  Frieze (USA), 1890–95

  Imitates a flock paper. Scrollwork and clusters of roses. The scrollwork is silvered. Printed in silver, red and pink on graded cream ground.

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  Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

  Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

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  Embossed Wool, ca. 1780

  Bright golden yellow woolen cloth, moire and glazed on one side with medium scale watered effect.

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  Frieze (possibly France), 1840

  Almost four complete horizontal repeats of a Gothic arch of stone elaborately carved and heavily enriched with flowers and plant forms. Printed in white and brownish-green on pale green ground.

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  Frieze (France), 1840–45

  A band of alternating oval and rectangular medallions along the upper edge. Below this a long enframed medallion stretching horizontally. Foliate clusters interrupt the latter from above and below at…

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  Embossed Wool, ca. 1800

  Vermilion woolen cloth, firmly woven, with medium-scale design giving all-over effect of vine leaves, curving stems, curling tendtrils on stamped glazed ground which gives slightly lighter effect. B-D appear to…