Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Frieze (USA), 1885–89

  Large bunches of pink carnations repeat horizontally above a continuous wave. Design richly laid with gold leaf. Floral bands at bottom. Graded cream and brown ground. Gold leaf.

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  Capelet (Russia), 18th century

  Part of a garment made from silver brocade with salmon-colored silk ruffles and lined with twill in natural wool.

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  Frieze (USA), 1890–95

  Imitates a flock paper. Scrollwork and clusters of roses. The scrollwork is silvered. Printed in silver, red and pink on graded cream ground.

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  Dish, late 18th century

  Shaped oblong dish with scrolled handles at either end. Center decorated in pale colors with a group of birds centered on an owl, in front of a stream. Edge and…

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  Textile (Russia), 18th century

  Diagonal repeat of large symmetrical tulip-like flowers with smaller tulip and broad-toothed leaves on either side of stem. Diamond rosette diaper filling interstices. In tarnished white metal threads in plain…

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  Textile (Russia), 18th–19th century

  Coarse white satin with design in silver foil of horizontal-vertical continuous repeat of pointed-arm crosses in a continuous interlaced framework. Eight-pointed stars, formed by interstices, are decorated with tracery.

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  Frieze (possibly France), 1840

  Almost four complete horizontal repeats of a Gothic arch of stone elaborately carved and heavily enriched with flowers and plant forms. Printed in white and brownish-green on pale green ground.

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  Frieze (France), 1840–45

  A band of alternating oval and rectangular medallions along the upper edge. Below this a long enframed medallion stretching horizontally. Foliate clusters interrupt the latter from above and below at…

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  Greeting Card

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  Trimming (Russia), 19th–20th century

  Red, white and black geometric pattern.