Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  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.

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  Sidewall (France), 1920–28

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

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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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  Fragment (China), 19th century

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

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  Pleated Fan, 1820–1830

  Double paper leaf with gilded hand-colored etching.Obverse: scene of three women with a lyre. Possibly an operatic scene. Reverse: plain paper with small gold ornamentation. Carved bone sticks with metallic…

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  Pleated Fan, 19th century

  Folding fan with a leaf of white bobbin lace with swirling floral patterns. Sticks of plain mother-of-pearl, with a wide white silk ribbon.

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  Fragment (Spain), 17th century

  Yellow damask with an allover design of a carnation in a vase above two confronted, rampant lions forming an ogival shape.

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  Fragment, 18th century

  Chartreuse damask with a highly conventionalized design of flowers and large scale leaves.