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Uncut Sleevebands
Last quarter 19th c

Lovely rich colour and very nice quality embroidery.

Cataloguing

the mid blue damask silk ground woven with small flower filled roundels and with cloud collar shapes, each panel embroidered with a pair of butterflies and bats surrounded by flowers and leaves, the outer edges with a similar border flanked by small three petalled flowers and peacock feather eyes, 44 x 18 in or 1.10 x 46 cm w.

Condition

Excellent. Just a little, 2 inches of couching has come away to the end of one row. We can couch this back down if you wish.