A mid 19th century shawl

Circa 1845-1855, French or Scottish

Woven in silk and wool with a border of interlaced oblique botehs and floral and foliate motifs around a teal central field. Vide: Shawls, Pamela Clabburn, publ. Shire Publications, 1981, p. 14, and the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 46.136.

324cm (127½") x 158cm (62¼").

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