Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Tie, early 20th century

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  Tie (France), 19th century

  Black silk tie with narrow neck section and wider oval motifs. Design of flowers and stems with leaves within conventionalized border.

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  Tie (France), 19th century

  Narrow black lace band in a conventionalized flower and leaf design. A medallion at either end shows a quartered shield, each quarter with a flower surrounded by leaves.

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  Tie (France), mid-19th century

  Narrow border ornamented with small four-petaled flowers. Medallions at either end show design of floral sprays in leaf border.

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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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  Valance (Germany), late 18th–early 19th century

  Valence with scalloped border in floral printed cotton with the edges bound in blue tape. The pattern has natural-size flowers and leaves in violet, blue, green, yellow, red, and brown…

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  Valance (England), ca. 1790

  Cotton printed with design of vertical stripes with alternating rows of flowering vines or scattered blooms.