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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…

  • 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.

  • Dado (England), 1817–27

    Simulates wooden Chinese fretwork railing with elements repeating horizontally. An illusion of depth is achieved by means of shadows against yellow irregular wave background. Printed in purple on yellow ground.

  • Dado (France), 1810

    A horizontal rectangle shows two children. The boy has placed a board over a small brook and the girl is in the act of crossing over. A floral rope marks…

  • Dado (France), ca. 1815

    Large horizontal rectangle containing motif of doves perched on a quiver of arrows. On either side are vertical rectangles the designs of which are identical: a trophy made up of…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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.

  • Sample Sheet (France), 1750

    Sheet of paper pasted with a double row of twenty-four samples of fulled woolen cloth in greens, blues, purple, brown, white, pink and oranges. Intended for export to the eastern…

  • Sample Sheet (France), ca. 1750

    Sheet of paper pasted with a double row of twelve samples of fulled woolen cloth in greens, purples, blues, orange, red and black. Intended for export to the eastern Mediterranean…

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