Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Belt (Russia), late 19th century

  Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

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  Textile (Russia)

  Floral serpentines brocaded in colored silks on background of gold and silver arranged in vertical stripes.

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  Capelet (Russia), 18th century

  Part of a garment made from silver brocade with salmon-colored silk ruffles and lined with twill in natural wool.

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  Textile (Russia), 18th century

  Diagonal repeat of large symmetrical tulip-like flowers with smaller tulip and broad-toothed leaves on either side of stem. Diamond rosette diaper filling interstices. In tarnished white metal threads in plain…

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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…

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  Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

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

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  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…

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  Textile (Russia), 18th–19th century

  Coarse white satin with design in silver foil of horizontal-vertical continuous repeat of pointed-arm crosses in a continuous interlaced framework. Eight-pointed stars, formed by interstices, are decorated with tracery.

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  Trimming (Russia), 19th–20th century

  Red, white and black geometric pattern.

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  Fragment (Russia), 19th–mid-20th century

  Multicolored border lace in a serpentine pattern.