-Oh!...my friend...I'm afraid of these people! -You are right, they are very wicked...they beat the women and make them slaves.

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Lord Endowing the Diligent Worker with Food and Clothing

Philips Galle Maarten van Heemskerck

-Cristi!... what misfortune that I don't know Chinese... I would tell her with pleasure something pleasing for her and unkindly for her husband.

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Fragment of Single Compound Corded Fancy Weave

Fragment of an Embroidered Runner

The Gardens of Galba on the Via Ostia Antica

Giacomo Lauro

Brocaded Twill

Fragment of Brocaded Fancy Twill

-Christ...the beautiful woman!... -Oh my god, I... the handsome man!... (this last sentence was translated from Chinese by Lassagne).

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Rosette

Fragment of Brocaded Twill

Embroidery

Embroidered Cloth

Fragment of Brocaded Fancy Twill

Embroidery

Embroidered Cloth

Frontispiece to "La Revue Fantaisiste"

Rodolphe Bresdin

Rubbing from Thirteenth-Century Relief of Jizō in Wakakusayama, Nara

Embroidered Cloth from Azimur

Shoulder Guards (Sode) Suit of Armor Bearing Crests of the Abe Clan

Brocaded single compound cloth

Embroidered Cloth

Embroidered Band

Strip of Lace Trim

Embroidery

Aydin kilim carpet

Embroidered Cloth from Azimur

"Recalled with enthusiasm!...and not one hired applauder...there's one who calls himself a real success...and they say that the art of Drama is decaying...let's go!..."

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Remember that I'll dig up your beans if you touch my melons

Emmanuel de Ghendt Clément Pierre Marillier

Battle of Okehazama in Bishū, Owari Province (Bishū Okehazama kassen)

Utagawa Toyonobu

Half of a Square Shawl

Brocaded Corded Fabric

Paintings (recto and verso), folio 14 from an album

Roundel Fragment with Cross Among Plants

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 8th (One of Three Kabuki Actors)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

Square with Bird

Textile Fragment: Duck and Flowers

The Lighthouse at Alexandria

Philips Galle Maarten van Heemskerck

Embroidery

Embroidery Band

Guide to the Triumphal Procession to the Capitoline

Giacomo Lauro

Embroidered Cloth

Embroidered Cloth

Fragment of Uncut Voided Velvet on Compound Cloth

Fragment of Brocaded Damask

Fragment of Brocaded Plain Cloth

Ttitlepage: Two Leopards and a Helmet

Stefano Della Bella

Embroidered Cloth

Temple of the Benevolent Goddess

Giacomo Lauro

Page from Book of Okinawan Textiles

Folio 3 from a Qur'an: Frontispiece, Fatiha (verso)

Fragment of Brocade on Fancy Weave

Folio 3 from a Manuscript of the Qur'an: Frontispiece, Fatiha (verso)

Military Ranks and Military Officials

Giacomo Lauro

Fragment (of a Hanging?) with Jeweled Border

Embroidery

A Description of the Papal Palace at the Vatican and of the Celebrated Pleasure-Garden of the Belvedere

Giacomo Lauro

Fragment with Large Leaf

Levantine textile

Embroidered Sampler

Brocade

Poetry (recto), Poet Giving Advice to a Young Novice, Frontispiece (painting, verso), illustrated folio (1) from a Partial Manuscript of the Bustan of Sa`di

Textile Fragment with Woven Border

Fragment of Brocaded Fancy Satin

Arms of France

Unidentified Artist

Folio 4 from a Manuscript of the Qur'an: Frontispiece, Sura 2: 1-5 (recto), Sura 2: 6-16 (verso)

Brocaded Plain and Twill Fancy Weave

Band with Dolphin and Vine

"OK, ma'am, a Little Courage..."

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Design of Flowers and Birds

Unidentified Artist

Fragment of Silk Lampas

Unidentified Artist

Embroidered Cloth

The Church of St. Sebastian on the Via Appia

Giacomo Lauro

Sandflowers

Kitaoka Fumio

A Drifting Boat (Ukifune), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 51 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Fushimi no miya Kunitaka shinnō

Looped Textile Square: Quail

Shiraz Carpet (Kashgai?), pair with 1943.1733

Red, Light Blue and Yellow Velvet

Brocaded Textile Fragment

Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar Ties His Turban

Chokha

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