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Large panel of fabric covered in West African text, grid patterns, and squares of animal hide.

Talismanic Textile, Late 19th/early 20th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave; photo-screen printed; glazed.

World's Fair, 1939

Seneca Textile Corporation

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 portrait of a young man with dark hair and beard painted on an irregular piece of wood. The background is gold as a wreath of ivy and necklace he wears. There are many areas where the paint has come off the surface.

Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath, Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century

Ancient Egyptian

Bordered textile depicting a festive scene on a gold background in yellow, red, green, and blue. Three poled structures linked by garland arches dominate the scene. At center, a person rides an elephant, a while at right, two people dance near a seated leopard. Two others dance at left.

The Elephant, from The Berain Grotesques Series, c. 1688/1732

Jean Baptiste Monnoyer

A work.

Tassels, A.D. 500/900

Nasca

A work made of silk, fancy simple satin weave.

Fragment, 16th century

Textile with a cream-colored floral motif on red fabric, vines arranged in repeating diamond shapes, a large flourish or blossom within each one.

Panel, 16th century

A work made of steel, iron, brass, leather, and textile.

Field Armor for Man, c. 1520

A work made of steel, iron, copper, textile, and leather.

Basket-Hilted Broadsword, about 1750

Walter Allan

A work made of lime (linden) wood, beeswax, pigments, gold, textile, and natural resin.

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Laurel Wreath, Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of cotton, plain weave; open work; screen printed.

Smokestacks (Furnishing Fabric), 1930

Sergi Petrovich Burylin

Long, thin piece of fabric featuring a border design in reddish brown of an undulating vine with curled tendrils and three-petaled blossoms.

Fragment (Border), Greco–Roman period (30 B.C.–641 A.D.), 4th/5th century

Coptic

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 7 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.9 mm weft: count: varies from 17 to 30 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.2 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.5–1.2. mm.

Venus and Adonis (?) with the Duck Hunt, c. 1600

Jacques Geubels, I

Tapestry with paisley design throughout in reds, purples, blues, and beiges, with fringe on top and bottom.

Shawl Border Fragment, 1815/20

A work made of linen, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, linen and silk in knot, overcast, satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and hemp, padded couching.

Orphrey Band, 1375/1400

A work.

Fragment

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

Apollo Exposing Mars and Venus to the Ridicule of the Olympians, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, c. 1650

A work made of silk, two and three-color complementary weft weft-float faced twill weave with inner warps.

Fragment, Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1988

Tatsumura Textile Company Ltd.

A work made of paper.

Design for Printed Textile, 1929/34

Fredrica Justina Staack

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