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Embroidery - FX319
Silk crewel embroidery on linen of three pinks flanked by other flowers with scarlet ribbon looped around stems. Predominant colors are soft jade green, pale yellow and rose on linen background. What looks like the initials "R" and "E" are very lightly inked on either side of the bow.
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Engraving - F2016.1.1
Bottom reads, "The Unfortunate Death of Major Andre (Adjutant General to the English Army) at Head Quarters in New York, October 2, 1780, who was found within the American Lines in the character of a Spy." Hamilton, delin. Goldar, Sculp.
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Engraving - F61.10
Colored transfer engraving on glass. Depicts a formal garden with fountain and people strolling. Probably taken from a book. Stowe House Gardens, Buckinghamshire.
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Engraving - F61.9
Colored transfer engraving on glass. Garden setting with figures and two classicized temples. Perhaps taken from a book. Stowe House Gardens, Buckinghamshire.
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Eyeglasses - F67.20.1-2
Oval-framed eyeglasses with folding side pieces and light green lenses. Hard red leather case with flap closing.
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Flask, Powder - F71.10.3
Embossed zinc powder flask with scallop-shell motif. Gray surface with a rounded end with gilt-brass mechanical powder release at top.
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Flask, Powder - F71.10.4
Rounded end with mechanical powder release at top. Body smooth and beveled.
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Horn, Powder - FX10
Powder horn (cow) with wooden knob, brass finial, and measuring spoon.
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Jar, Cosmetic - F91.2.36.7A, B
Octagonal glass salve jar (full) with sterling lid. Lid has a floral design. Salve on the inside is an orange color.
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Jar, Cosmetic - F91.2.36.8A, B
Octagonal glass salve jar (empty) with sterling lid which has bead and scroll design. Also has engraved script initials, "ACB."
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Lamp, Candle - F56.364
A mid-19th Century Victorian cast bronze, brass and painted metal and blown glass table or mantle light garniture, having foliate cast, "T"-shaped central armature, the ends of the cross bar suspending two circular brass candle or light holders, with chains, now holding blue-green swirled glasses, the stepped-down brass base attached to painted metal base, (the glass inserts may be associated).
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Lamp, Sinumbra - F54.193
A 19th Century New York brass and glass sinumbra lamp, having hand-blown, frosted, domed shade, supported on ringed oil reservoir, with pressed foliate edge surround, leading to central single wick, the turned, tapered central shaft supported on ring-turned base with square footing. Label: "J. & I. Cox/New York."
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Lithograph - F67.2
A mid-19th century hand-colored lithograph, Currier & Ives, New York, showing a young governess and her suitor, stealing a kiss in the park, while she hides the eyes of her twin girl charges, with their straw bonnets. A charming depiction of early Victorian everyday life; framed in deeply molded gilt gessoed wood frame of the period, 2 1/2" molding. Lower margin reads: "KISS ME QUICK / Children, this is the third time within / an hour that I...
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Lithograph - F72.14
French colored lithograph fashion print, printed in Paris, 1846, showing two fashionably dressed young ladies strolling in the park, in simple early 20th Century frame, 1/2" molding. Fashion print from Graham's Magazine.
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Lithograph - T54.221.1
A German mid-19th century hand-colored lithograph, printed in Berlin, ca.1850-60. Depicts a boy stealing eggs from the nest of a bird, hidden in the cleft ledge of a rock. Framed in simple gilt and gessoed frame of the period, with half-round molded-edge surround, 1" molding.
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Lithograph - T54.221.2
A German mid-19th century hand-colored lithograph, printed in Berlin, ca.1850-60. Depicts a boy and girl in a farm yard with a chicken attacking the boy. Framed in simple gilt and gessoed frame of the period, with half-round molded-edge surround, 1" molding.
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Map - F01.8.10
"Map of the Counties of New York, Queens, Kings, and Richmond" on white paper with black, green, brown, yellow, and purple inks. Key has symbols for stage roads, country roads, villages, flouring mills, manufactories, forges, saw mills, and churches.
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Mezzotint - F53.105
A late 18th Century hand-colored mezzotint, showing a grandfather seated outdoors with his three grandchildren and dog, framed in mid-late 18th Century frame with gilt and gessoed liner. "Published 1st July 1789, by Robt. Sayer 53 Fleet Street, London"
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Mezzotint - F54.178.1
Mezzotint half portrait of King George the III. Lower margin reads: "T. FRYE. ad vivum delineavit./ R. PURCELL fecit./ His Most Sacred Majesty GEORGE the III King of Great Britain, &c."
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