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  • Border (China), 19th century

    Valance or border in heavy white cotton embroidered in blue cotton with a main design of a crow in flight appearing between two sprays of fruit-bearing branches. Flowers, butterflies and…

  • Ribbon (France), 18th century

    Narrow ribbon in pinks and greenin a repeated, small-scale striped pattern. Elaborate tassels at either end.

  • Ribbon (France), 1750–1800

    Long strip, widening toward the bottom, of openwork effect formed by silk-wound linen strands bound at intervals by silk warps. Serpentine of green ribbon tied to form small scallops applied…

  • Valance (Germany), late 18th–early 19th century

    Valence with scalloped border in floral printed cotton with the edges bound in blue tape. The pattern has natural-size flowers and leaves in violet, blue, green, yellow, red, and brown…

  • Lantern (USA), 1765–66

    Ebonized and gilded tôle square lantern. Small ball feet and circular stepped top with pierced pattern. At each upper corner, an upright gilded elm leaf. At top, a flat suspension…

  • Valance (England), ca. 1790

    Cotton printed with design of vertical stripes with alternating rows of flowering vines or scattered blooms.

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