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Chine Silk Shawl
c 1850

Stunning and unusual.

Cataloguing

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

Condition

Very good