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Panel Of Nakshe (women’s Trouser) (Iran), 18th–19th century
Polychrome silks, predominantly red and green, solidly worked in cross stitch on cotton canvas in diagonal rows of lozenges separated by narrower diagonal bands; all forms built up of minute…
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Textile (Iran), 18th or 19th century
On double thickness of off-white cotton, design of groups of people, animals, trees, scattered fowl and insects, all facing toward central crouching camel with howdah on his back. Wide border…
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Textile (Iran), 17th century
Medium-sized repeat of stylized symmetrical flower sprays of gold with touches of pale pink and coral in a trellis framework of fine silvery leaves and flowers on dark blue ground.…
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Bowl (Persia, Kashan), ca. 13th–14th century
On slight foot a slightly curved bowl of coarse whiteish clay, the lower part unglazed. Slight pinkish white glaze on upper outside and on inside; in center a bird painted…
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Textile (Iran), 18th century
Small bird-on-bush repeat on a reddish-orange ground. Bird motif in blue, brown, white, green, and yellow. Yellow thread originally wrapped with silver, but now is mostly worn off.
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Long band composed of three shorter pieces stitched together. All-over embroidery in irregularly interlaced pattern of bands striped in three shades of brown. One selvage present, other long edge cut…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Natural, brown, and rust-red strips of plain woven raffia stitched together on long edges, finished with buttonhole embroidery and raffia pompoms.
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Fragment (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Fragment of bark cloth with a center field of alternating black and natural triangles, with borders on two sides of natural color with a single black stripe in the center.
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