Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Belt (Russia), late 19th century

  Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

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  Textile (Russia)

  Floral serpentines brocaded in colored silks on background of gold and silver arranged in vertical stripes.

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  Capelet (Russia), 18th century

  Part of a garment made from silver brocade with salmon-colored silk ruffles and lined with twill in natural wool.

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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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  Sample Sheet (France), 1700–1775

  Sheet of paper pasted with double row of 12 samples of wollen cloth with felted surfaces in reds, greens, browns, grey, and blues. Stamped heading: “LONDRINS SECONDS DE GUILLAUME BESAUCELE…

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  Sample Sheet (France), ca. 1750

  Sheet of paper pasted with a double row of twelve samples of fulled woolen cloth in greens, reds, purples, blue, black, and white. Crudely drawn floral border of brown ink,…

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  Sample Sheet (France), ca. 1750

  Sheet of paper pasted with twelve samples of fulled woolen cloth in greens, orange, red, blue, and browns. Intended for export to the eastern Mediterranean region.