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Plate with Spider Web, Plant, and Insect Design
View through Harvard Museums
Busch-Reisinger Museum
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
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Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation
Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation
A portion of a red tapestry woven square (tabula). The design is characterized by mirror symmetry. Animals and birds flank a large abstract, jeweled candelabra plant emerging from ...
Textile Stencil (katagami) with Chrysanthemum Design
Textile Stencil (katagami) with Chrysanthemum Design
Katagami--literally "pattern papers"--are Japanese cut-paper stencils through which a paste resist is applied to cloth in the first step of the katazome ("pattern-dying") process. ...
Mirror Case with Birds and Flowers
Mirror Case with Birds and Flowers
Among the most characteristic and compelling art forms of the Qajar period (1779–1924) in Iran are works in “lacquer.” Technically distinct from East Asian lacquers, these are esse...