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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  Carpet Fragment (England), early 20th century

  Carpet fragment with a medium-scale allover flower and leaf repeat in delft blue, light blue and pale coral. One plain selvage with black cotton warps.

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  Panel (USA), ca. 1880

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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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  Textile (India), early 20th century

  Symmetrical horizontal repeat of vase with flowers (two alternating variants) in decorated arabesque framework with filling sprays of twining stems, leaves and flowers. Floral guard band at bottom within decorated…

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  Sample Book, Wallpaper by Denst and Soderlund, 1952–53

  Includes, with color alternates, the following wallpapers: Trees, Twine, Broken Ladder, Checks, Round, The River, Deep Water, Lakatoi, Dandelion, Chameleon, Intracte, Singora Sail, Talisman. The book is setup to show…

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  Sample Book, Sculptured Wallcovering, 1951

  Samples of wallpaper imitating brick walls, straw matting, stone walls, wood grain, etc., in three-dimensional plastic.

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  Tile (England), 1898–1907

  Square tile or buff clay with grog added. Streaky brilliant peacock-blue colored glaze, crackled. Impressed mark: “Dm 98”

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  Tile (England), 1888–98

  Square tile of reddish buff clay with grog added. Brilliant greenish blue colored glaze, crazed. Stamped with double wing on back, surrounded by “W. De Morgan 2 Co Sand’s End…