Color: #ffdead

  • Border (France), ca. 1850

    Rinceau of light pink flocked leaves whose stems enclose gilt, buff and brown eye-like shapes. Bead and reel design forms upper border.

  • Button

    On card 62

  • Button

    On card 61

  • Waistcoat (France), 1750–60

    Gentleman’s ivory silk waistcoat with an all-over painted pattern of small pink flowers on a blue curving vine, with a border of roses on a yellow lattice at the neck…

  • Bed (France), ca. 1935

    Low rectangular base (a) and rectangular matress (b), both covered in brown leather.

  • Palampore (India), early 18th century

    Center of painted cotton; lined with dark green glazed linen, and with wide border of green silk. Center made of two breadths of cotton, one of 15 inches, one of…

  • Sampler (England), 1795

    Within a curving floral border a scene featuring a lighthouse with flags, a windmill, a house and assorted motifs titled “An East View of Liverpool Lighthouse and Signals on Bidston…

  • Matchsafe (USA), early 20th century

    “Peerless/Trade Mark/The Closet of Quality”

  • Sidewall (USA), 1905–15

    Overall speckle pattern with small dots, larger blotches, and simplified three-petal flowers. Background of vertical lag and feather motif. Ungrounded. Printed in green, red, black, brown and yellow.

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