EditorialSkirt panel, Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: applique, Lower part of a light brown satin skirt panel with a scalloped bottom edge accentuated by daisy-like flowers, arcs and V-shapes of applied white satin sprinkled with sequins. Band of styli...
EditorialBorder, Medium: cotton Technique: stem, satin, and chain stitch embroidery, Coarse natural color cotton band embroidered in bright red in a three inch wide border along the bottom. Design of running vine of natural-size blossoms in full face with styli...
EditorialSidewall, Machine-printed paper, All-over pattern of naturalistic sprays of flowers and foliage; single-motif diamond-shaped repeat in off-set columns; color scheme of pinks, dark red, and light and dark greens; negative space filled with further styli...
EditorialFrieze, Robert Graves Co., New York, New York, Machine-printed, Border; upper half consists of series of interwined gilt circles forming a geometric pattern. In center of each is a coral colored disc in light blue field. Lower portion consists of styli...
EditorialSmall Glass Ewer, 11th century, Probably made in Iran, Glass, green; blown, applied handle and decoration, H. (at handle tab) 5 3/4 in., Glass, The decoration created by a thread of glass trailed around this vessel is suggestive of the undulating styli...
EditorialBell-shaped bowl with floral scrolls, Bell-shaped porcelain bowl, painted in underglaze blue. On the outside wall a band with a continuous leaf vine, a band with leaf motifs around the foot. A band with curl on the outside edge. The bottom with a styli...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with a drop-shaped motif, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, sling side. The repetitive and symmetrical pattern consists of a drop-shaped pattern. The successive drops touch each other. In the open center of each drop is a styli...
EditorialSaucer with auspicious symbols and ornamental borders, Porcelain dish, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, black and gold. On the plate of the dish in the center a peach branch in a medallion with a spearhead border and decorative band with styli...
EditorialRinse bowl of hard-fired earthenware, Leeds creamware, hemispherical bowl of hard-fired earthenware, with a blue decoration under the glaze and a multicolored decoration on the glaze. The decoration looks Japanese and consists of a landscape with styli...
EditorialPear-shaped bottle vase with auspicious symbols and stylized flowers, Bottle-shaped porcelain vase with a pear-shaped body and long neck, painted in underglaze blue. On the belly two bands divided into compartments with lucky symbols (chakra) and styli...
EditorialSmall Glass Ewer, 11th century, Probably made in Iran, Glass, green; blown, applied handle and decoration, H. (at handle tab) 5 3/4 in., Glass, The decoration created by a thread of glass trailed around this vessel is suggestive of the undulating styli...