Lot Essay
The design of this shawl is very much in the style of Anthony Berrus, cf Monique Levi-Strauss, The Cashmire Shawl, p 81 for an illustration of a similar spiralling leaf spray.
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A fine shawl, woven à pivot with assymmetric naturalistic spiralling sprays of roses against a field halved in green and red, circa 1855--
See Illustration
See Illustration