The "Sun Shawl", a fine long shawl woven with a central black foliate stellar medallion from which radiate black rays, the ends with two pairs of out-sized facing cones enclosed within a lobed and scrolling frame infilled with exotic flowers, with two outer borders of scrolling cones and leaves, with canvas tag on reverse inscribed "1.1955", stamped "17388[?]"--63 x 142in. (158 x 355cm.), circa 1867, French, after a design by Berrus, slight damage

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The "Sun Shawl", a fine long shawl woven with a central black foliate stellar medallion from which radiate black rays, the ends with two pairs of out-sized facing cones enclosed within a lobed and scrolling frame infilled with exotic flowers, with two outer borders of scrolling cones and leaves, with canvas tag on reverse inscribed "1.1955", stamped "17388[?]"--63 x 142in. (158 x 355cm.), circa 1867, French, after a design by Berrus, slight damage
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This is illustrated in colour plate 10 in the top left hand corner.

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A shawl of a very similar design was shown at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition woven by the Paris manufacturers Bourgeois & Mahaut after a design by A. Berrus called the "Sun Shawl". The design was also published in the Rapport des Dlgations Ouvrires de l'Exposition Universelle de Paris 1867 in the chapter devoted to shawl designers. See "The Cashmere Shawl", Monique Lvi-Strauss, 1987, London, pps. 159-161.

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