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A work made of silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk floss and metal-alloy-strip-wrapped silk in chain stitches; applied paillettes; loop and ball fastenings; edged with applied braid; embroidered areas lined with cotton, plain weave.

Aba (Dress for Child or Young Woman), 19th or early 20th century

Miniature room featuring wide-plank hardwood floors, round hooked rugs, simple wooden furnishings, and a wood-burning stove. The window frames and door frames are painted green, while the walls are a light butter yellow.

A18: Shaker Living Room, c. 1800, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of steel with gilding, iron, brass, leather, and cord.

Armor for Field and Tournament, About 1560

Jörg T. Sorg, the Younger

A work made of pen and brown ink, with colored crayons and charcoal applied with stump, over graphite, on blue-gray laid paper (discolored to brown).

Study for La Coiffure, 1906

Pablo Picasso

A work made of gelatin silver print, with applied color.

The Pyramid of the USSR, 1997

Valera Cherkashin

Earthenware bottle with a long neck and domed cover topped with a circular element. The vessel decorated with flowers and birds in blue and white.

Bottle, c. 1678-85

Grieksche A Factory

A work made of gelatin silver print with applied coloring.

A Picture Library, 1916

Wallace Nutting

A work made of gelatin silver print with applied coloring.

Untitled, 1945

Unknown Maker

A work made of silver gilt, rock crystal, textile, and human remains.

Reliquary Monstrance with a Tooth of Saint John the Baptist, 1433; container: 900/1200

Weddeghe Velstede

A work made of soot and saliva, applied with sharpened stick and smudging (recto and verso) on ivory card.

Untitled (recto and verso), n.d.

James Castle

Miniature dining room with mint-green walls and two large windows on the back wall, between which hangs a portrait of a Revolutionary-era man flanked by two vases. A formal wooden table with two chairs sits in the room's center, a fireplace with a mirror on the mantle and two tall stools at left.

A10: Massachusetts Dining Room, 1795, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of glass.

Paperweight, c. 1870

A work made of soot and saliva, applied with sharpened stick and smudging, on found paper.

Untitled, 1950/77

James Castle

To-scale great room with a double-height ceiling. The bottom half of each wall is clad in elaborately carved wooden panels. The right wall features a tall bay window, the left a fireplace flanked by suits of armor. A long, rustic table with bench is centered in the room.

E-1: English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of qingbai ware; glazed porcelain with underglaze applied decoration.

Stemcup with Pearl-Edged Lobes and Central Floret, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)

A work made of earthenware with incised and applied decoration.

Jar (Guan), Style of Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1050 B.C.)

A work made of hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding.

Trumpet Player, c. 1760/70

Vienna State Porcelain Manufactory

A work made of illustrated with photographs and diagrams, two-color decorated wrappers, housed within modern gilt-lettered leather box.

De Toegepaste kunsten in Nederland (The Applied Arts in the Netherlands), 1932-1935

Richard Roland Holst

Porcelain soup bowl with fruit and floral decorations painted in enamel color and molded scalloped edge with a golden border.

Soup Bowl, c. 1750

An interior space with sliding panel doors at right leading to a glimpse of outdoor greenery. Pale wooden shelves and trim line the room, which features pale blue walls and minimal furniture.

E-31: Japanese Traditional Interior, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne