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  • Valance (Russia), 19th century

    Symmetrical design of horse drawn coach in profile on either side of tripartite domed building. Many incidental human and plant forms. White on white with squared mesh ground. Symmetrical vermicular…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Valance (Greece), 18th–19th century

    Wide valance of linen in two parts, joined horizontally by a narrow band of ribbon. Lower half is embroidered with horizontal rows of stylized leaves, almost square in form, alternately…

  • Valance (England), 18th century

    Long valance-shaped fragment of coarse cotton. Design is incomplete, but shows a large floral motif and foliage. Background is blue and the design is reserved in white with blue accents…

  • 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.…

  • 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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