Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Table cover edged with insertions of darned net. Insertions in multi-colored silk and metallic thread in floral serpentine.

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Cream-colored linen table cover, with wide border designs worked in polychrome silks of pale green, yellow, pale rose, light blue, dark blue and dark green. Edged with border of dark…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Table cover or “paño de ofrenda” of white hand woven linen embroidered in light brown linen thread. Cutwork squares and borders are worked in white and brown thread. Traditional stylized…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Oblong table cover of hand-woven linen of sheer open weave, embroidered in brown and white silk in cross stitch. Allover pattern arranged in squares of highly stylized floral or lily…

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  Shawl (Mexico), late 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow shawl of cream colored cotton embroidered at the ends and along the sides in colored silks and paillettes in a leaf and bow-knot design. Scalloped ends of netting…

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  Shawl (Belgium), 19th century

  White lace shawl of fine mesh with detached floral designs and a wide floral border.

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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Large reddish-pink table cover edged around all sides with a deeply scalloped lace in a pattern of rosettes.

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  Shawl (Switzerland), 19th–20th century

  Shawl in fine white cotton printed in polychrome and what appears to be hand painted additions. Border design is a rural scene along a river; corners feature a rustic bridge,…