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Footed jar (a) cast in two parts with encircling banding covering the joint. Wide, short, straight neck. Stepped lid (b) overhangs the neck, rises through curves to tall finial with two knobs topped by a ball. The whole decorated with concentric bandings of inlaid white and brass-colored triangles, elipses, dots, S-curves, etc.

Jar And Cover (Philippines), possibly 19th century
bronze, inlaid metal.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Hermanos.
1969-12-16-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cylindrical containers curving inward to a low feet. Wire handle at each side. Gold ground with chinoiserie decoration.

Pair Of Cachepots And Liners, ca. 1765
painted tôle, wire.
Gift of Rodman A. Heeren.
1969-156-2-aa/bb

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cylindrical container curving inward to a low foot. Wire handle at each side. Gold ground with chinoiserie decoration.

Pair Of Cachepots And Liners, Ca. 1765
painted tôle, wire.
Gift of Rodman A. Heeren.
1969-156-3-a,aa

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

In Paisley shape with scrolling foliage and flowerheads cut out and highlighted with punches.

Cut-out Decorative Foil (India), 1881–1912
cut and perforated sheet brass.
Gift of Sullivan Goss-An American Gallery.
2014-42-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images and 1 video of this object.

Rectangular panel of fine twill tapestry has a tight arrangement of small-scale quatrefoils and ogives enclosing flowers with interspaces filled with floral and foliate motifs. Colors are dark red, blue, green, purple, yellow, and white. Bordered and piped with different bands of imitation tapestry, one floral, one geometric. Backed with red cotton twill.

Panel (India), 19th century
wool, cotton backing.
Gift of George Arnold Hearn.
1903-9-18

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poppy-like plants arranged in staggered rows on a red with white dotted background.

Fragment (India), 18th century
cotton.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-975

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, View Towards Damascus, Syria

Drawing, View Towards Damascus, Syria
brush and oil on thin cream paperboard.
1917-4-729

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Large tent panel with an architectural form, characteristic of Islamic art, of a a pointed, lobed arch within a frame, suggesting the mihrab or prayer niche. Within this frame a symmetrical, balanced pattern shows a slender vase, from which spring branches ending in blossoms; a second slender vase emerging from the first, holds a second cluster of flowers, which almost touch the curved top of the arch. At the base, the vase is supported by a rudimentary hillock, at either side of the vase grow long pointed leaves, and at either corner rise slender branches, from similar small mounds, on which appear fruits or seed pods and flowers. The background color is a dark reddish-brown, and on this the main design is enlivened by a secondary pattern of many small leaf sprays or curling waves, reserved in the white of the cloth, which appear throughout among the branches. The vase shape is in red and yellow diamond pattern, the second vase or stem is brown dotted in white; flowers a strong red with much interior delineation of form.
The frame of the mihrab is a narrow red band which surrounds it and carries a small pattern in brown, yellow and white. At either side, beyond this red frame, is a second narrow border on yellow with small vine and flower-head pattern. This leads up into the spandrels, also yellow, avove the pointed arch, where a matching vine design appears on either side of the tip of the arch. A curved segment of a pointed oval closes either side of the spandrels. Across the bottom of the panel runs a border decorated with crosses alternating with diamond shapes, within each of which are stylized patterns. The same border crosses the top of the panel above the spandrels, and above that appear on white ground a row of small iris, or crocus flowers. The curved segment of a pointed oval appearing on either side of the spandrel suggests that this panel was part of a series.
The general color effect is rich and varied with reds, greens, sky blue, dull yellow, orange, and a plum color, and is much lightened by the small reserve pattern on the dark background.

Tent Panel (India), 1650–1700
cotton.
Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.
1952-111-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 11 images of this object.

Square Kashmir shawl with a design of cones primarily in reds, with an open ivory field. Each cone is 10 1/2 inches high, and is compartmented by a narrow border of floral vines. Currently the shawl has wide borders on two adjacent sides and narrow borders on the two remaining sides. It has been re-made from fragments of a long shawl. Originally each end would have had a wide border nine cones in width: one side of the square version has the full nine cone pattern, the other has seven cones. The two remaining cones exist as a separate fragment (1958-148-5b). The narrow guard border of a similar floral vine has been stitched to the two remaining sides. In this way the shawl could be folded diagonally to form the triangular shawl popular in the mid-19th century.

Shawl (India), ca. 1800
wool, cashmere.
Gift of Lea S. Luquer.
1958-148-5-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.