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Coat, dark blue broadcloth, embroidered in gold thread. Opens down the front. Unlined. A few moth holes. Wool and metal thread.

Coat, 19th century

Iran

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Strip of dark purple satin material with small pattern in light purple made with tie and die batik, over which crosses embroidered in matting stitch alternate with tiny mirrors enclosed in buttonhole stitch. Part of a larger piece, possibly a pulchari. At one side a short strip of mirror and chain stitch border has been restored. Satin, embroidered.

Panel, 19th century

India

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Saddle bag with front of black woolen material embroidered in the center with a triangle placed in an oblong and surrounded by four borders filled with diamond shapes or triangles. The back is cotton and has two leather loops attached at the top.

Saddle bag, 19th century

Russia

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Short sari of white cotton material with borders woven in gold and colored silks added at both sides and a wider silk and gold border at each end decorated with nine palmette patterns.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Oblong panel of embroidery on fragment of linen cloth. The pattern worked in red, green and dark blue silks and silver thread, consists of interlocking rows of flowering plants, much conventionalized.

Oblong panel, 19th century

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31.81.12-15 Camel bags, portion of. Black woolen strip embroidered in lozenge design in yellow, blue, red and green. This is probably nomad work. Wool.

Camel Bag, 19th century

Turkey

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Embroidered square of red satin faced with coarse white cotton material and worked with metal threads and green silk in rows of conventionalized floral motifs. Unfinished at the top and bottom and finished at the sides with selvages. Satin.

Square Piece, 18th century

Turkey

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Tent Hanging, embroidered; composed of four strips of burlap-like material in alternating colors - red, pale blue, yellow, darker blue all of which are embroidered with geometric designs. There are several long pieces of wool or hair knotted into the warp threads - to ward off the evil eye. Wool

Tent Hanging, 19th century

Turkey

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Piece of tan linen embroidered with leafy scrolls and large red flowers. Fragment of much larger piece, Lined with unbleached muslin. Linen

Fragment, 19th century

Uzbekistan

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Black silk embroidery on linen. Evidently a practice piece showing portion of border and diamond shpaed units used for corner decoration. Pattern typical of the embroideries made in the city of Fez. Similar to 30.23.14. Red stains on linen. Linen-silk thread.

Embroidery on linen, 19th century

Morocco

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Square mat of white woolen material with border embroidered in silk and cotton threads in design of small palmettes, leaves and flowers. Wool.

Square Mat, 19th century

India

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Sari, fine dark green cotton material. Wide gold bands on either side and very heavy gold bands at each end.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Towel-scarf, with border at both ends embroidered with silk threads and tinsel, in pattern of houses, trees, and flowers. The same on both sides. Both ends are hemmed and both sides finished with selvage. Fine linen. Brown stains. Linen, silk embroidery.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Rug, large, Shirvan Khilim. Three broad stripes of blue with hexagonal motives alternating with broad triple band in green, red and dark brown. This khilim has large openwork spaces. Wool

Rug, 19th century

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Towel-scarf, narrow, with border at each end embroidered with various colored silk floss in design of vase and flowers. Both ends are hemmed and both sides finished with selveage. Linen stained with brown. Pattern the same on both sides. Cotton, silk thread.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Pulchari, or woman's veil of white figured satin embroidered with rose-colored flowers in rows, a center medallion and borders of palmettes at top and bottomn. The embroidery is done in satin stitch.

Pulchari, 19th century

India

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Shawl of red woolen material. Embroidered with tree and birds in center panel which is arch-shaped. The spandrels of the arch and the borders are heavily embroidered with interlacing palmettes. Wool, embroidered.

Shawl, 19th century

India

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Pair of pink satin bands embroidered with flowering branches and butterflies in gold and colored silks. Lined with thin green silk.

Pair of Sleeve Bands, 19th century

China

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Card case(?) of stiff material covered on the outside with satin and lined with silk damask. One side is embroidered with birds and flowers on a blue ground - the other with flowers and a bat on a light red gorund.

Card case (?), 19th century

China

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Box, rectangular, dark base with gold foil sprinkled on (nashi-ji), decorated with various-sized butterflies. Bottom and inside aventurine

Incense box decorated with butterflies, 19th century

Unknown Japanese

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Rug, so-called 'dragon' type; dark blue field witrh geometrical floral and leaf designs, hook and 'S' shapes in blue, green, red and white. Two borders seperatews by a barber pole guard stripe. The outer stripe has a geometrical flower and knop pattern connectedd by vines on an ivory field. The innner border is of wine glass design on a rose field. Selvedged with cotton, short warp fringe at each end. Closely woven with nap cut very short. Ghiordes knot. Woolen warp; cotton woof.

Rug, 19th century

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Panel, 19th century

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Linen wall hanging. Panel covered with all-over diaper pattern of red flowers and green leaves. medallion in center. Three borders, one wide and two narrow. Lined. Linen, embroidery.

Suzani, 19th century

Uzbekistan

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Horse Trapping. Coarse blue wool ground with six bands representing men and animals. Border of chevron design in yellow and brown. Long blue knotted fringe at the end. Wool. Woven fabric.

Horse Trapping, late 19th century

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Toilet box in shape of casket, cover with metal handle, inside decorated around and on top of a fitted tray with flower sprays. Aventurine and gold. Cover mottled gold and black with crescent moons.

Small Box in the Shape of a Firefly Cage, 19th century

Unknown Japanese

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Potala (double ikat) silk panel with all-over geometric pattern in yellow, red, green, and brown. Finished at each end with wide borders and fringe; possibly a sari.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Ecclesiastical Stole, Date Unknown

Syria

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Kussaba, or square shawl, woven in separate pieces and sewed together in patchwork. The border is made of pieces of woolen material of different colors sewed together and embroidered. Maker's signature in corner.

Shawl (Kussaba), 19th century

India

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Oblong box with scalloped edges. Flowers, insects on top and sea animals inside in relief, and incrusted pearl. Signed on bottom.

Incense box with flower and insects design, 19th century

Unknown Japanese

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Sari of white satin. Field embroidered with rows of tiny green flowers. At one end a row of six large palmette shapes, with a peacock and flowering bush embroidered inside, from the border. The border at the other end consists of three rows of smaller palmettes. Narrow border on either side.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Square of finely striped black and white silk material with heavy striped borders at each end of red, green, gold and silver. Finished at both ends with a fringe of small tassels and with larger tassels at each corner.

Square of Material, 19th century

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Panle of rose red satin with decoration of yellow and white diamond shapes. Finished at each end with irregular yellow stripes and at each side with green borders.

Panel, 19th century

Uzbekistan

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Oblong cover of coarse linen embroidered all over with floral patterns in red, green and blue silk threads. Worked partly in drawn thread work and partly in cross stitch. Finished at one time with a heavy silk lace which has been almost all cut away and stitched down under a blue sateen lining. Made in several parts and patched together. Three tassels at each end.

Oblong cover, 19th century

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Temple banner of deep red satin embroidered in silk and gold thread with men carrying banners and on horseback. In the lower panel and in the upper panel herons and flowers. Finished with a narrow border of closely embroidered blue flowers and at the bottom with colored silk fringe. Lined with cotton.

Temple Banner, 19th century

China

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Woman's Tunic of yellow brocade with all-over floral pattern in different colors. Lined with blue printed cotton. The sleeves are open - being held together under the arm by black tapes - and near the cuff by metal buttons. Metal brocade.

Woman's Tunic, 19th century

Iran

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Pouch made of embroidery on canvas with stitch similar to petit point with design of red dragon on ground of fret pattern in light and dark blue. Drawn together at the top with purple silk cords decorated with painted china beads.

Pouch, 19th century

China

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Temple banner. Ivory satin ground embroidered in colored silks with groups of birds and animals against a background of flowering shrubs. Finished with an embroidered border of blue flowers and lined with pink cotton.

Temple Banner, 19th century

China

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Envelope-shaped pouch of purple silk embroidered all over, and encrusted with mirrors. Ornamented at bottom and both sides with bunches of tassels.

Pouch, 19th century

India

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Pouch of deep purple silk embroidered around the edge with a band of different colored stripes and in the center with wave and cloud patterns and with chinese characters. Drawn together at the top with green cotton tapes decorated with green pottery beads.

Pouch, 20th century

China

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Towel-scarf of loosely woven ribbed linen material embroidered at each end with colored silks and heavy unbleached linen thread. The pattern is composed of four diamond-shaped medallions with small stiffly drawn flowers in the triangles formed between the medallions. Linen.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Towel of loosely woven linen material embroidered with silk thread in border at each end. Composed of three spiked pink flowers surrounded by circle of leaves and vine. Both ends are hemmed and both sides finished with three narrow borders of silk thread woven into the material. Linen.

Towel, 19th century

Turkey

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Shawl with plain red woolen center and separately woven border with palmette and tree patterns, in shades of green, red and purple. Finished with a narrow fringed border of patchwork squares and embroidery. The border is added so that on two sides the back, or wrong side of the material shows.

Shawl, 19th century

India

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Square, batik, printed. Leaf and vine design in dull red, dark blue and black on tan ground. Square center of dull red.

Batik Square, 19th century

Indonesia

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Rug, small black khilim, with a lozenge design in black and tan. Fringed ends.

Khilim rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Banded scarf of Polonaise type with stripes of alternating gold and silver and with wide gold border at each end. Two large floral units are placed in each end border panel. Finished all around with a narrow border of running vine and flower design, and with gold fringe at each end. Metal, thread.

Sash, 18th century

Iran

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long band of silk tapestry known as tsuzure-ori, literally, 'patched weaving'; clouds, a flying bird and a large blue flower against a henna ground. Two small silk and gold tapestry squares set in each end; lined with silk painted with leaves and flowers on a green ground.

(Tapestry), 19th century

Unknown Japanese

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Panel of kincob cloth with pattern of chrysanthemums in gold on deep blue silk ground. Border stripe on one side.

Panel of Kincob cloth, 19th century

India

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Shemaka or Soumak Pillow Case with typical geometric designs in tan, red, blue, green and yellow. A wide border with geometrical designs on a red ground, is flankled by narrow borders carrying the reciprocal sawtooth in black on a beige ground. Sides overcast with colored yarns, backed with green cotton fabric.

Shemaka Pillow Case, 19th century

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Rugs, with floral designs in dark blue, red, green, and yellow. The corners of the field have a stiff floral design on a field of old rose, central medallion has an all-over pattern. Three borders, one being the tortoise design. This piece is woven like a Soumak but has the designs of a Persian Kurdistan. Sides overcast. Woolen warp and weft.

Rug, 19th century

India

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Towel scarf of loosely woven linen embroidered with colored silks. The pattern consists of blossoms springing from foliations of various shapes symmetrically arranged, and detached floral sprays; it covers the whole of the ground with the exception of a narrow pillar-shaped space in the middle. Similar to 30.23.65 though the workmanship is not as good. Dark red and blue are the dominating colors. Two narrow borders of drawn work, and fringe at each end.

Towel scarf, 19th century

Algeria

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Prayer rug of Kazak type., Typical prayer arch, formed by narrow, ivory bands, which extend transdversely at each side to the borders. At the bottom of the field is a second, square arch. Light red field, scattered with geometric and conventionalized flower forms. Three borders carrying variations of the reciprocal clover leaf design. Sides finished with red woolen cording. Ends worn, ends in short warp fringe. Ghiordes knot. Woolen warp and woof.

Prayer Rug, 19th century

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Two borders of purple embroidery joined with a woven stitch. Seam through the center. Pattern typical of embroideries made in the city of Fez. On linen.

Embroidered borders, 19th century

Morocco

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Panel of red satin embroidered with large conventionalized flower motifs in rows of three and worked with colored silks, mostly white, green and blue. Finished with an added border.

Panel, 19th century

Turkey

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Long pouch of red silk embroidered with pulchari stitch and encrusted with mirrors. Decorated on each side with tassels and fastened with long red and yellow cords terminating in silk tassels.

Pouch, 19th century

India

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Panel of heavy red satin brocaded in yellow with zig-zag borders of Arabic characters. Finished with an added border of red satin and lined with dark blue.

Panel, 19th century

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Panel, 19th century

Bulgaria

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Piece of tan material thickly embrodered - the borders at either side with patterns similar to shawl patterns, and the center with medallions of various sizes surrounded by an all-over floral vine pattern. Probably part of a larger piece. Cotton, embroidered.

Panel, 19th century

India

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Sari, dull red silk. Embroidered with rows of small yellow and white flowers. Narrow border on each side and very wide border at each end of two bands of palmettes, the lower consisting of six palmettes, and the upper band of eleven palmettes. Very long.

Sari, 19th century

India

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One of a pair of water bottles, spherical body with long straight neck. Four bands of narrow ornament on neck. Cover.

Water Bottle, one of a pair, 19th century

Egyptian

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Rugs, with floral designs in dark blue, red, green, and yellow. The corners of the field have a stiff floral design on a field of old rose, central medallion has an all-over pattern. Three borders, one being the tortoise design. This piece is woven like a Soumak but has the designs of a Persian Kurdistan. Sides overcast. Woolen warp and weft.

Rug, 19th century

India

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One of four pillow cases, with floral design, three borders, one wide with the tortoise design and two narrow ones with floral and vine design. Sides overcast in red wool. One end has a fringe and one has a web.

Pillow Cover, 19th century

India

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31.81.12-15 Camel bags, portion of. Black woolen strip embroidered in lozenge design in yellow, blue, red and green. This is probably nomad work. Wool.

Camel Bag, 19th century

Turkey

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Embroidered sile Khilim of the type used for hanging, or coverlet. Faded henna field embroidred in squares which contain various geometrical designs. Made in two pieces and sewed together. Border of triangles and squares containing triangles. Short web with knotted warp threads at one end, loose warp threads at other end. Wool.

Sile Khilim, 19th century

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Ghiordes Prayer Rug. The blue prayer niche is fringed with small rosettes in profile. The tan spandrel above the arch carries a vine and flower design that is quuite naturalistic. There are three borders each outlined by a narrow brown guard stripe of saw tooth design. On the ivory ground of the main border conventionalized flowering plants are placed in square formation. The ends are worn. The bottom has a narrow fringe of frayed warp thread, but a narrow web still remains at the top edge. The sides are finished with an added silk selvedge. Ghioredes knot. Warp woolen; woof, cotton.

Rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Towel scarf of loosely woven linen embroidered with colored silks. The pattern consists of blossoms springing from foliations of various shapes symmetrically arranged, and detached floral sprays; it covers the whole of the ground with the exception of a narrow pillar-shaped space in the middle. The foliations are mostly dark red and blue, which are the dominatn colors of this embroidery. Borders and narrow fringe at each end.

Towel scarf, 19th century

Algeria

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Cover of tan linen embroidered all over with a heavy corded stitch in pattern of squares worked in red silk. The square medallion in the center is partially restored and pieces which were once part of the center have been used to patch two of the square corner medallions. Finished with borders of ribbed stitch alternating with narrow drawn thread work borders, and, with red tassels.

Cover, 19th century

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Heavy cotton bed curtain made in inverted U-shape. The side panels are embroidered with pairs of faded rose-colored flowers in brackets of narrow spiny leaves. The cross piece at the top is embroidered with three rows of similar design. Cotton, embroidered.

Bed Curtain, 18th century

Uzbekistan

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Sari of thin green silk covered with very small lozenges worked in gold thread. Finished with narrow gold borders on both sides and wider borders at the ends.

Shawl, 19th century

India

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Temple banner of black satin embroidered in gold and silk threads with two phoenixes facing a gold disk. Finished with a narrow floral border, and at the bottom with green silk fringe. Lined with blue cotton.

Temple banner, 19th century

China

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Square pouch of purple cotton material fastened at top with draw strings. Embroidered and encrusted with mirrors. Ornamented at sides and bottom with bunches of tassels.

Pouch, 19th century

India

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Square of light tan material embroidered in brown with small geometrical motifs set closely together in rows. At one end, the seam when two pieces of the material are joined is covered with a narrow floral border worked in light green and brown. Border finishes one side.

Embroidered canvas, 19th century

Morocco

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Cover of yellow brocade with a silver sheen resulting from silver threads in the weft. Patterned with black fret design and peonies outlined in black. Finished with aborder of green satin brocade and lined with cotton material.

Panel, 19th century

China

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Light green satin band embroidered with panel of butterflies worked in blue, gree, and brown silk thread.

Sleeve Band, 19th century

China

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Scarf, 19th century

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Rug, small, Khilim; green ground with a pyramid design repeated four times in red, blue, red and grey. The side borders are white with an indented design at the edges. There are four narrow borders at the bottom. The open spaces in this rug are not very noticeable.

Khilim rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Square, batik, cotton. Birds and grotesque figures on light tan ground. Wide border of brown fruit and leaves on blue ground. At the request of Mr. Plimpton this printed fabric was washed in Ivory Snow on February 2, 1950 by Mr. Soulen and Jim Cooper.

Batik panel, late 19th century–early 20th century

Indonesia

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Three border ends of towel scarves sewn together. The linen materal is embroidered with meetal and linen thread in conventionalized flowerg plant motifs. Each of the three sections has cream silk borders woven into the sides of the material. White, pink, and blue threads are used.

Towel Fragment, 19th century

Greece

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Sari, dark blue silk covered with pattern of gold spots. Very wide border of red and gold at bottom and narrower gold border on one side.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Child's Shirt of dark blue silk embroidered with satin stitch in Chinese landscape pattern of flowers, birds, men and animals. The seams at both sides have been ripped open. Neck, arm holes and hem are finished with bands of lavendar and yellow silk.

Parsi gara Child's Shirt, 19th century

India

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Piece of dull blue canvas embroidered all over with cross stitch in dull, red, blue, yellow and black in conventional designs similar to those woven in carpets of the period. Part of a much larger piece. Linen, embroidered.

Panel, 18th century

Iran

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Robe of thin white cotton material striped with white silk and ornamented with small diamond shapes worked in tinsel and finished at neck and sleeve openings with borders of the same material.

Robe, 20th century

Egypt

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Towel of rather coarse linen with border at both ends embroidered with colored silks. Three floral sprays having three pink blosooms each form the border. Both ends are hemmed and sides finished with selvage. Linen, silk embroidery.

Towel, 19th century

Turkey

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Panel of slightly conventionalized leaves and flowers embroidered on heavy cotton. Several parts of the design are outlined in machine chain stitch with red. The anhiline dyes have run and stained the material.

Panel, 20th century

Uzbekistan

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Sari - white silk embroidered. At one end the border is made of six large palmette shapes. Flowers and two birds are embroidered on each palmette. The border at the other end of the sari is also of six palmette shapes, equally large, but decorated with naturalistic flowers only. Both borders as well as the narrow one on each side are embroidered in green silk. The field is embroidered with rows of tiny flowers in light rose silk

Sari, 19th century

India

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Towel-scarf of rather coarse linen with border at both ends embroidered with colored silks. The pattern consists of seven units, identical in design though not in color, of a vase and flowering plant. Both ends are bound and sides finished with a selvage. Linen, embroidered in silk.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Banded scarf of polonaise type made with narrow alternating stripes of two patterns and with a wide silver border at the bottom on which are fine flowering trees. Finished all around with a narrow floral border and at each end with added silver fringe.

Sash, 18th century

Iran

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Towel of loosely woven linen material embroidered in silk thread with pattern at each end of leaves, flowers and vines which fill the corners leaving a diamond shaped panel of plain material in the center. Blue and shades of rose are the predominating colors. Linen.

Towel, 19th century

Turkey

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Temple banner of black satin embroidered with butterflies and sprays of flowers in colored silks. Finished with two borders. The narrow inner strip of embroidered satin and the outer strip of brocade. Lined with cotton.

Temple Banner, 19th century

China

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Towel-scarf embroidered in linen thread with two conventionalized flowering plant motif forming border at each end. White, pink and shades of blue thread used.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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sari, green silk gauze. All-over diaper pattern woven in gold thread.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Scarf of coarsely woven mustard colored woolen material embroiderd at both ends with bands of carse geometrical pattern. Both ends are finished with loose fringe.

Scarf, 19th century

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Inrō in five sections with head slide and square wooden netsuke with round metal disk, design in relief. Box of incised lacquer of cinnabar lacquer covered with dark brown, scroll design. Inside nashi-ji finish, gold foil scattered on reddish brown bed. Probably 19th century, although the style started under Qianlong (1736-1795). Ojime of polished goldstone

Four-case inro with carved lacquer decoration and netsuke of a box with chinese lion, late 18th century

Unknown Japanese

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Hearth rug, Yomud type. A white field sewn with small stars (?) ('checkerboard') contains a badly designed hexagonal medallion, which in turn contains ten octagon shapes in various colors. The hearth field is enclosed by a reciprocal sawtooth band in three shades. Three borders, the main one made up of geometric single flowers divided by three triangles laid end to end. Ends-narrow web with loose warp threads. Sides-over cast with different colored yarns. Ghiordes knot.

Hearth Rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Necklace, beads (medium?), Egyptian; large bead L. 1-3/8' W. 3/4'; unnumbered Necklace of 64 patterened beads interspersed with lapis lazuli and other beads; large flattened lapis lazuli bead at the center.

Necklace, 1st-5th century

Ancient Egyptian

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Pillow Case, Shemaka or Soumak, with typical geometric designs in tan, red, blue, green and yellow. A wide border with geometrical designs on a red ground is flanked by narrow borders carrying the reciprocal sawtooth in black on a beige ground, sides overcast with colored yarns, blocked with green cotton fabric. Woolen warp and woof.

Pillow Case, 19th century

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31.81.12-15 Camel bags, portion of. Black woolen strip embroidered in lozenge design in yellow, blue, red and green. This is probably nomad work. Wool.

Camel Bag, 19th century

Turkey

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Water bottle, one of a pair, spherical body with long straight neck. Four bands of narrow ornament on neck. Cover.

Water Bottle, one of a pair, 19th century

Egyptian

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Saddle Bag, made from a Kurdish Ghilim. Field of triangles edged with latch hooks, there are three borders with reciprocal saw tooth and lozenges, one strip of the central portion of the bag remains and has an arrow motif in red, blue and yellow. Woolen warp and woof.

Saddle bag, 19th century

Kurdish

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Necklace, faience; unnumbered; necklace of 31 beads with 31 beads with greenish-blue glaze, large melon-shaped bead at center and each bead separated by small disk beads.

Necklace, 1567-1085 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

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Rug, small, Khilim in pale green. Prayer design in red. The field contains various unrelated geometrical forms in various colors. Side and end borders of different widths and design. Side borders have a considerable amount of black. Finely woven.

Khilim rug, 19th century

Turkey

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