EditorialNarrow-leaf bitter-pea, Daviesia leptophylla (twiggy daviesia; Daviesia virgata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis' "Botanical Magazine," London, 1832.
EditorialBorder, Medium: silk Technique: cloth weave brocaded, Design of serpentine stem with leaves and flowers with narrow leaf border on one side and other side cut. Colors: light and dark pink, blue, green, brown, and white., France, late 18th century, wove...
EditorialShawl, Medium: silk Technique: bobbin lace, Chantilly style, Triangular black silk lace shawl with scalloped edge with design of broad ribbon crossed at regular intervals by narrow leaf. Central floral motif., Chantilly, France, ca. 1860, lace, Shawl.
EditorialPleated fan, Paper and parchment leaf with hand-colored lithograph, carved, painted and gilded mother-of-pearl sticks, Pleated fan. Narrow leaf with hand-colored lithograph on paper backed with painted parchment; sticks of carved and incised mother-of-...
EditorialFrieze, Block-printed on handmade paper, Wide acanthus rinceau at bottom of frieze, with narrow leaf and dart border at top, printed in grisaille on gray-green ground., H# 357, France, 18001850, Wallcoverings, Frieze.
EditorialCane of rattan with a driven silver button and eye, with copper tip, Rotting or walking stick of rattan cane with driven silver button and eye. Decoration: at the bottom of the button cannelures and garlands. Narrow leaf lists form the transition to th...
EditorialCane of rattan with a driven silver button and eye, with copper tip, Rotting or walking stick of rattan cane with driven silver button and eye. Decoration: at the bottom of the button cannelures and garlands. Narrow leaf lists form the transition to th...
EditorialNarrow-leaf bitter-pea, Daviesia leptophylla (twiggy daviesia; Daviesia virgata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis' "Botanical Magazine," London, 1832.