Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Textile (Portugal), 19th century

  Part of cover or curtain, of cotton striped in blue and white with printed designs in stripes. In blue, a vase with flowers; in white, groups of dogs alternating with…

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  Panel (possibly Portugal), 18th century

  White silk floral damask embroidered with scattered animals, birds and insects in colored silks and metal threads. With an embroidered obelisk surmounted by a coronet with serpents on either side.…

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  Sidewall (France), 1950

  Chintz pattern: Stylized floral and foliate motifs printed in blues, greens and yellows on pink ground.

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  Floor Tile (possibly Portugal), 16th–early 17th century

  Square tile of buff clay with thin underfired opaque grayish-white glaze. Underglaze blue painting of diagonally placed heraldic shield with eagle and three pointed arches. Above, helmet with plumes, and…

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  Stole (France), 1915–20

  Long stole with triangular middle-section ending in elaborate tassel of metal, jet and silk. Pink velvet with “batiked” effect in purple. At either end, printed border of sylized flower forms…

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  Button

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  Sidewall, Spanish Geraniums, ca. 1951

  Brightly colored pink and red geraniums growing on vining stems. Printed on white ground.

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  Textile (Portugal), late 19th century

  Chintz with a brilliant blue ground showing a coarse chinoiserie design in red, yellow, blue, black, brown and green. Two groups of Chinese figures in staggered repeat.

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  Band (Portugal), early 17th century

  Lace band in which ships alternate with mythical sea creatures. With attached border of stylized heart-shaped forms, taken from design by Parasole of 1597.

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  Panel (Portugal), ca. 1600

  Panel of lace with three horizontal bands divided into eight squares each, depicting scenes from the biblical story in which Judith severs Holoferne’s head to save her people. With geometric…