Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Tile (Germany), 16th century

  Within an arched niche are St. Martin and the Beggar. At base are strapwork, pendants, masks, grotesques, and seven figures symbolizing the three ecclesiastical and four cardinal virtues: Faith, Hope,…

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  Chalice Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Square, probably top of chalice cover; cloth of silver, with symmetrical design of stylized plant forms and jars at corners and sides, pointing toward center rosette. Coral beads form leaves…

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  Chalice Cover (Italy), 16th–17th century

  Faded purple ribbed silk ground embroidered in colored silk and metallic thread. Central design shows a cruciform composed of conventionalized flowerheads in profile and S-forms of foliage. Cover design of…

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  Miser’s Purse, early 19th century

  Miser’s purse worked in bebilla or oya with very small flowers and leaves on green mesh. Two covered rings as slides for purse.

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  Miser’s Purse, early 19th century

  Small netted purse in dark brown silk with cut steel beads in floral design. Looped tassels of cut steel beads at each end; single steel ring.

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  Miser’s Purse (France), 1830–60

  Knitted miser’s purse of tan silk with cut steel beads, with beaded tassel at rounded end and bead loop fringe at flat end. Plain cut steel rings to fasten.

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  Miser’s Purse (France), early 19th century

  Cream colored silk miser’s purse with designs of flowers in cut steel beads. Tassels are made from cut steel loops. Single ring of steel, grooved ornament to fasten purse.

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  Tile (USA), ca. 1880

  Blue-green. Design in nine panels: central panel of lily-of-the-valley; flanking panels of raised hobnails; corner panels of one daisy each.

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  Tile (USA), ca. 1880

  Blue square with flat border. Relief design of a vine with four leaves forming a circle, on a textured ground.

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  Tile (USA), ca. 1880

  Blue. Framed by plants, or swan floats on a pond.