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  • Towel End, 18th–19th century

    Towel end made up of three pieces of loosely woven fine cloth with a deep band of embroidery of stylized allover floral design in silver-gilt thread and silk embroidery in…

  • Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

    Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.

  • Towel End, 19th century

    End crossed by two types of shrine forms (?) alternating in blue, green and pink silk silver thread with touches of brown and cream. Fret border in cream and silver…

  • Towel End, 19th century

    Broad lower towel end with a border of drawn work with animals confronting initials “M.I.D.” under coronet and with floral and bird frame; symmetrical flower motif on each end. Broad…

  • Towel End, 19th century

    Towel end with deep border at bottom of three flower heads in drawn work with fine embroidered foliage detail, in white linen thread. Initials “I.A.D.” in symmetrical leaf-framed cartouche above.…

  • Reproduction, Album: Imperial

    A partly opened box, which appears to be fabricated of leather (exterior) and velvet (interior) is placed on the diagonal and abuts the top and bottom edges. A design, perhaps…

  • Reproduction, Album: Bell Telephone

    The present photograph features a telephone in the streamline style. The narrow rectangular base supports a rotary dial in the center, and on each side, a raised, rounded terminal designed…

  • Reproduction, Album: Arab

    A box, which appears to be fabricated of paper and is shaped like a cigarette package, is placed on the diagonal on a ribbed fabric background. The front, which faces…

  • Towel End, 18th–19th century

    Towel end edged at one end with wide border of stylized tulips and birds.

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