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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  Woman’s Mantle (chyrpy) (Turkmenistan), 19th century

  Woman’s white cotton chyrpy embroidered with silk and wool felt appliqué in red, green, yellow, blue and magenta. Vertical stalks of highly stylized tulips rise from the hem, and a…

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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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  Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

  Brisé fan. Celluloid stick with white, uncurled ostrich feathers.

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  Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

  Brisé fan. Tortoise shell sticks with black ostrich feathers, graded larger toward center; smaller tips are massed on outer guard.

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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.