EditorialFragments, Medium: silk and metallic yarns Technique: slit tapestry, Fragments of tapestry roundels and borders from a plain cloth garment, some of which is still visible at the edges of these decorations. The fragments show portions of birds, mytholog...
EditorialBedcover, Medium: silk, cotton batting Technique: trapunto quilting, Coverlet with a deep red vertical central panel with a large crowned eagle in center, filling of foliage and hippocamps (horses of the sea). Warriors on foot and on horseback in arcs ...
EditorialCope hood, Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: lampas (two interconnected structures: 4&1 satin plus 2/2 twill; metallic wefts bound on the front in 1/3 twill by the twill warp), Central sunburst with cross and letters 'IHS'. Heads of three cherub...
EditorialDesign for a Pier Glass with Alternative Suggestions, Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, Elevation of a console table and pier glass. Scrolling base with musical trophy and basket of flowers. The sides of glass have narrow candelabru...
EditorialFragments, Medium: silk and metallic yarns Technique: slit tapestry, Fragments of tapestry roundels and borders from a plain cloth garment, some of which is still visible at the edges of these decorations. The fragments show portions of birds, mytholog...
EditorialVenus, Block-printed paper, Vertical rectangle. Female figure, suggestive of sculpture, in costume of classical antiquity, standing on a pedestal with guilloche decoration. Printed in grays and neutral yellow on gray ground., France, 18251835, Wallcove...
EditorialProject for an Oval Frame, Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819, Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, An oval frame painted to look like partial gilt. Decorated with inner band of rosettes and acanthus leaves; outer band with guilloche...
EditorialSidewall, Whiting & Sons, 1880s ca.1900, American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association, 18791887, Machine-printed paper, Running in four parallel bands, intertwined lines form guilloche-like design composed of octagonals alternating with squares. Prin...
EditorialTiraz tapestry fragment, Medium: linen, silk Technique: tapestry weave, Tiraz tapestry fragment showing three bands of guilloche pattern in yellow on red and green. At the center of each circle is a stylized acorn or abstracted animal icon., Egypt, 100...
EditorialBorder, Block printed on handmade paper, Two revolutionary emblems enframed in tricolor ribbons on top of a guilloche composed of laurel and oak leaves. The top emblem shows Hercules bending fasces, sitting on an animal pelt with a club by his side. Th...
EditorialDesign for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, charcoal or black chalk traces, ruled lines in leadpoint on cream laid paper, Fork at top left with end of handle formed by female bust; an extended vol...
EditorialSidewall and border, Block-printed, handmade paper, joined, Vertical rectangle. Narrow tangent serpentine ribbons enclosing irregular ellipses with stippled ground, set with single rose buds. Border, across top and bottom, has guilloche design formed o...
EditorialDesign for a Ceiling, Design for a Ceiling, View of a ceiling divided into horizontal bands of ornament in varying widths. Within each strip are small framed tablets with figural scenes, and smaller panels of ornament including rinceaux and guilloche.,...
EditorialSidewall, Machine-printed, Stripe design with 2 light-colored broad bands and 2 darker narrow bands. The wide bands contain 2 alternating motifs: a group of flowers, with foliage and wheat, and a vase with a bouquet of flowers. Printed in white and lig...
EditorialBacchus, Block-printed paper, Vertical rectangle. Male figure, suggestive of sculpture, in the costume of classical antiquity, with the attributes of a Bacchante: grapes in one hand, and goblet in the other. He stands on a pedestal with guilloche decor...
EditorialDesign for a Painted Wall Decoration, Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, Elevation of a room. Dado and pilasters in marble. Capitals and molding details picked out in gold. A Wall painted with a square panel showing a landscape. Guilloche deco...
EditorialBlack Basalt Covered Urn, Wedgwood, English, established 1759, stoneware ('black basalt'), Ovoid, with high looped handles and small cylindrical neck. On square plinth (b) with relief palmette decoration, and ogee foot (d) with leaf-molded edge. Flat c...
EditorialFragment, Medium: wool, linen Technique: tapestry weave, Tapestry weave fragment showing green and purple design on undyed ground; figures and animals within guilloche interlace; at bottom, an advancing wave border, Egypt, 500700, woven textiles, Fragment.
EditorialBedcover, Medium: silk, cotton batting Technique: trapunto quilting, Coverlet with a deep red vertical central panel with a large crowned eagle in center, filling of foliage and hippocamps (horses of the sea). Warriors on foot and on horseback in arcs ...
EditorialAnonymous, Sheet with overall guilloche pattern, Anonymous, Italian, late 18th-mid 19th century, Possibly by Remondini Family (Italian, 16491861), late 18thmid-19th century, Relief print (wood or metal), Sheet: 18 3/16 ? 13 7/8 in. (46.2 ? 35.3 cm), Pr...
EditorialBridge and Double Spout Bottle with Guilloche, Paracas, 7th4th century B.C., Peru, Paracas, Ceramic, Overall: 5 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (13.65 x 14.91 cm), Other: 5 7/8 in. (14.91 cm), Ceramics-Containers.
EditorialAnonymous, Sheet with four borders with guilloche and ribbon patterns, Anonymous, Italian, late 18th-mid 19th century, Possibly by Remondini Family (Italian, 16491861), late 18thmid-19th century, Relief print (wood or metal), Sheet: 14 5/16 ? 18 7/16 i...
EditorialWatch, Men's watch, with guilloche bottom. The dial is made of hatched silver and has a fan-shaped opening in which a pendulum is visible., F. Breul, c. 1800 - c. 1815, gold (metal), silver (metal), d 5.8 cm.
EditorialWatch with a flower bouquet, Ladies watch from gold. On the back bottom an enamel painting of a bouquet. The guilloche, golden dial features white enameled pinions, with Arabic hour figures., Landscapes in the temperate zone, anonymous, Switzerland (po...
EditorialMen's watch in silver with the letters J.v.D. in cartouche, Men's watch from silver. The outside of the back is decorated with guilloche work around a cartouche of leaves. In the cartouce the letters J.v.D. engraved. With chain., anonymous, Switzerland...
EditorialPortrait medallion of gold, oval, with gold rim. Between a photographic portrait and the edge, blue glass on guilloche soil. Reverse: moonstone on guilloche soil., anonymous, c. 1870 - c. 1900, gold (metal), glass, moonstone, engine turning, h 6.4 cm ?...
EditorialPortrait medallion of gold, oval, with gold rim, set with strass. On the front a photographic portrait, at the back a medallion in which a lock of hair behind glass surrounded by a border of blue glass on guilloche soil., anonymous, Netherlands (possib...
EditorialTiraz with dense guilloche bands, 1100s. Egypt, Fatimid period. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen and silk; overall: 56.5 x 22 cm (22 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.).
EditorialTiraz with guilloche bands and fringe, 1100s. Egypt, Fatimid period. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen and silk; overall: 55 x 17.5 cm (21 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.).
EditorialGuilloche Lattice with Pinecone (?), 7th?9th century, Made in Egypt, Byzantine, Weft-faced compound twill (samit) in red, black, and blue silk, Overall: 7 7/8 x 6 5/8in. (20 x 16.9cm), Textiles-Woven.