Chine Silk Shawl
c 1850

square with four wide stripes 7 in; 18 cm of chine woven designs, two with rectangles divided into triangles containing poppies and foliage, flanked by three flower clumps on a black ground, alternating with stripes of diagonally placed smaller rectangles and stripes, all in polychrome shades, on a mid brown silk gauze ground, 64 in; 160 cm sq, coloured silk tassels