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Book · 27 pages
A 1910 section of the Handbook of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, covering Western art objects in the galleries. It opens with textiles: Coptic Egyptian and Peruvian tapestries, Persian and Turkish rugs, velvets and brocades, Flemish and French tapestries, and Italian and Spanish brocades, damasks and velvets. It also has a section on lace (drawn-work, cut-work, reticella, Venetian and French point, bobbin lace) with Spanish buratto and Italian embroidery. The rest covers Saracenic ceramics and metalwork, sculpture, silver, porcelain, ironwork, manuscripts and amber, with short bibliographies.

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