Rectangular cashmere shawl with a halved black field with multicoloured elongated botan and fan palm motifs
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Rectangular palm shawl of wool, with a woven pattern on which a halved black mirror and multicoloured elongated, intertwined feather-, or bota- and fan-palmette motifs. The central pattern is symmetric with respect to a long vertical axis and a short cross-axis. A centre of a half black mirror and half, multicoloured bota-radiations. At both ends stands a very long central palmette, with black outline and with a fan-crown of small Kashmir feather- or bota-motifs. It rests on an elongated second fan-palmette, which stands between two slender botas. Left and right of this again elongated and intertwined botas, of which the round volute is held up. Beside shorter ditto's. In the vertical border the turned S-motifs in horizontal formation meet each other. It is set in narrow white frames.
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