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: N8831

: Applied Art

: fragment, silk

: Rectangular piece of brocade, hemmed and trimmed with narrow silk fringe on long sides, selvedges on short sides. Cream silk brocaded with narrow trailing floral stripe in green/pink/red between satin self stripes alternating with a second stripe between plain stripes. Second pattern of alternating red and puce sprigs on three satin stripes between floating self pattern of banded laurel stripes, the whole edged by narrow satin stripes. From same dress as N8832.

: 1760-1780