Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample Book (USA), 1948

  Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

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  Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

  Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

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  Scarf (France), 19th century

  Three cornered lace scarf. Probably Empire style.

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  Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

  Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

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  Bag (France), late 18th century

  Bag of white cotton printed with a basket of fruit and flowers on each side, with a strawberry vine border and a narrow egg-and-dart border. Drawstring top with silk cord…

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  Scarf (Indonesia), early 20th century

  Narrow length of batik in brown, dark blue, white, and tan.Tumpal motif (row of isosceles triangles) at ends and large sawat or mironj motif (wings of Garuda, mount of Vishnu)…

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  Bag (France), 19th century

  Tall white cap, or hat, off white cotton. Wider at top, shaped to fit forehead at bottom, and folds flat. Quilted and heavily padded; back, design of white ridges that…

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  Bag, 19th century

  Bag knitted in stockinette stitch, with a drawstring at the top; now open at bottom. Deep band of decoration in red and blue on a white ground. Three tassels attached…

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  Bag (Italy), 18th century

  Knitted bag of rose colored silk with a geometric design; with rose ribbon upper edge and handles.

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  Scarf, 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow scarf with ends decorated in deep borders that embroidered in red, blue and pale green in a series of geometric designs. Shorts tassels of green, red and blue…