ESCHER NO. 89 (FISH), A DAMASK-LINEN TABLECLOTH AND SIX NAPKINS

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M.C. Escher, 1953, manufactured by E.J.F. van Dissel & Zonen, circa 1954
ESCHER NO. 89 (FISH), A DAMASK-LINEN TABLECLOTH AND SIX NAPKINS
Woven with a stylised pattern of interlocking seahorses and fishes
Tablecloth 150 x 236 cm.; the napkins 49 x 48 cm. (7)

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Lot Essay

See for comparison:
Doris Schattschneider, Visions of Symmetry, Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and Related Work of M.C. Escher, New York, 1990, p. 308, no. 89, for an explanation and an illustration of a drawing for this design

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