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  • Purse (France), early 18th century

    Small sheild-shaped purse of yellow silk satin damask embroidered in design of arabesques worked in silver thread with flowers in pink, blue and green silk, with the same design on…

  • 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.…

  • 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.…

  • Sidewall, Sound Waves, 1948

    Horizontal rows of wavy lines in dark and light-green on a light-brown ground. Gives the appearance of a graph or fever chart. Printed in blue and green on off-white ground.

  • Purse (Spain), late 17th century

    Flat rectangular bag of heavy green satin, embroidered in gold and silver metallic yarns and coral-colored silk. On one side the pious pelican is plucking her breast to provide sustenance…

  • Sidewall (France), 1920–28

    Chinoiserie: Vignettes of Asian figures amid pagodas and large flowers. Printed in colors on yellow ground.

  • 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.

  • Fragment (China), 19th century

    Allover geometrical design in greenish gold and rose with blue outlines.

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