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Results for "A Mother's Pearls"12 records

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Tray for Sewing Tools with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tray for Sewing Tools with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

Unrecorded maker

1800s · Lacquer, lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

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Foliate-Shaped Tray with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Foliate-Shaped Tray with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

Unrecorded maker

late 1400s–early 1500s · Lacquer, Inlaid abalone shells on black lacquer ground, applied with red lacquer on the interior

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Scroll Box with Dragon and Phoenix Design by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Scroll Box with Dragon and Phoenix Design

Unrecorded maker

1800s · Lacquer, lacquered wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl and twisted brass and copper wire

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Tanbūr by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tanbūr

Unrecorded maker

late 1800s · Musical Instrument, Wood, bone, mother-of-pearl, and wire

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Chest for Storing Garments by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Chest for Storing Garments

Unrecorded maker

1400s · Lacquer, lacquered wood with mother-of-pearl inlay

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Layman bearing offerings by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Layman bearing offerings

Unrecorded maker

c. 300 CE · Sculpture, stucco with mother-of-pearl inlay

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Matchlock Musket by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Matchlock Musket

Unrecorded maker

c. 1750 · Arms and Armor, Wood, steel, brass, mother-of-pearl inlay, and leather

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Altarpiece with Relics by Joseph Matthias Götz, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Altarpiece with Relics

Joseph Matthias Götz (d. 1760)

c. 1735–40 · Sculpture, gilded wood, with relics in niches: gilded wood, mother-of-pearl, ebony, red silk, gold wire, seed pearls, rock crystal, pen and ink on paper

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Tea Table by Carlo Bugatti, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tea Table

Carlo Bugatti (d. 1940)

c. 1907 · Furniture and woodwork, inlaid wood (mahogany?), cast and gilded bronze mounts, inlays of ivory or bone, metal, and mother-of-pearl (marine mussels or pearl oysters)

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Guqin made by Zhang Ruixiu of Suzhou by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Guqin made by Zhang Ruixiu of Suzhou

Unrecorded maker

1584 · Musical Instrument, Seven-string Asian long zither, chordophone, made from wood, lacquer, mother of pearl, and silk strings

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Parure: Necklace, Pendant, Earrings by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Parure: Necklace, Pendant, Earrings

Unrecorded maker

c. 1850 · Jewelry, seed pearl on mother-of-pearl

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Necklace (Parure) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Necklace (Parure)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1850 · Jewelry, seed pearl on Mother-of-Pearl

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