Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Fragment (China), 19th century

  Latticework and arabesques in red, blue and brown on a light tan ground.

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  Fragment (China), 19th century

  Allover geometrical design of circles enclosing peonies in blue and green on a brown ground.

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  Cap (Egypt), late 13th–early 14th century

  Man’s cap of bright blue silk formed from six isoceles triangles, with a deep band to encircle the head. The triangles have quilted geometric borders and fillings; the band has…

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  Square, Boy and Girl, 1947

  Off-white silk square scarf with a scene with a boy giving flowers to a girl, with a black dog standing on his hind legs between. Multiple concentric borders of straight…

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  Drawing, Design for a Town Hall in French Village, Facade Detail, ca. 1907

  A design for a French town hall depicting part of the main facade. Drawing suggests that the building is constructed of small stones and larger ones around entrances and windows.…

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  Tray (England), 1823–24

  Broad cast ornamental border bearing marks, and figures and animals of ten classical hunt scenes among flowers and foliations. Four foliated feet terminate in dolphins’ heads. Scroll and floral chasing.…

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  Sidewall, New Hampshire Flower, 1950

  Network of blue scalloped bands forming rough hexagons which enframe a white flower. Printed on gray ground.

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  Shawl (Mexico), late 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow shawl of cream colored cotton embroidered at the ends and along the sides in colored silks and paillettes in a leaf and bow-knot design. Scalloped ends of netting…

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  Textile, Kennet, designed 1883

  Large flower heads leaning left, and large leaves, on a ground of small-scale, all-over design of flowering vines. In two shades of blue on a white ground.

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  Textile, Wey, designed 1883

  Medium scale design of large flowers on curving stems with small composite flowers scattered between. Some dotted detail. In two shades of pale blue on deep indigo blue ground. Wide…