Ordinary Safety Pin (ca. 1935)
From the exhibition:
Bag fragment (100 BC–AD 700)
Nasca Valley, Peru
Camelid fiber; weft-faced plain weave, slit tapestry weft patterning, needlework edges
5 7/8 x 5 1/2 in. (15 x 14 cm)
Collected by Ronald Olson during the Myron Granger Expedition, accessioned 1930, American Museum of Natural History 41.0/5415
Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of AndeanChuspas
Armchair for the Chinese pavilion of Princess Kinsky (1793)
Charles Percier
Mahogany and molded mahogany veneer
Attributed to Georges Jacob. Private collection, Paris.
From the exhibition: Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions