Lot 119
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A superb 'Paisley' shawl, woven in nine colours with two central palmette tipped columns flanking a black cruciform medallion, the harlequin shawl ends woven and over-embroidered with the crest of Napoleon III above the words BIETRY in one corner and CASHMIRE in the other, circa 1855--133in x 64in

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A superb 'Paisley' shawl, woven in nine colours with two central palmette tipped columns flanking a black cruciform medallion, the harlequin shawl ends woven and over-embroidered with the crest of Napoleon III above the words BIETRY in one corner and CASHMIRE in the other, circa 1855--133in x 64in

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At the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris, Anthony Berrus displayed a pivoting shawl with the arms of Napoleon III woven in to the corner. The Empress Eugenie attended the Exhibition and is said to have ordered a shawl by Berrus to be woven by Bietry.

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