An evening dress of black silk gauze, the skirt embroidered in rust, gold and jade coloured beads with metal threads with pommegranates, acanthus leaves and other similar motifs, with slashed sleeves embellished with tassels, the left-hand one with a draped hanging panel which forms part of the skirt, early 1920s, unlabelled, altered at waist

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An evening dress of black silk gauze, the skirt embroidered in rust, gold and jade coloured beads with metal threads with pommegranates, acanthus leaves and other similar motifs, with slashed sleeves embellished with tassels, the left-hand one with a draped hanging panel which forms part of the skirt, early 1920s, unlabelled, altered at waist
See Colour Plate 7

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Said to have been beaded by Eymard, 11 bis cité Trévise, Paris

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