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Illustrated catalogue of Mr. Thomas B. Clarke's remarkable gathering of rare plates of many nations and beautiful old textiles (1916)

American Art Association, Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919, former owner. DSI-F · New York : American Art Association · leaf 126

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. No. 471 {Seventeenth Century) LARGE BOKHARA PLATE 21 inches Deep ovoidal rim with broad flat bottom. Bottom occupied by a large medallion enclosed by several borders, presenting conventional leaf -forms gracefully executed in deep blue and manganese on a cream colored ground. On the rim the… … No. 473 ESCUTCHEON {Eighteenth Century) Height, 8)4, inches; width, 6}/2 inches On a bright gold cartouche elaborately embroidered, a shield in cloth of silver with gold and silver applique, and the whole under a bishop's hat and decked with its tassels, in reddish gold and rose-pink silk.

Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931

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