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Large ivory silk embroidered shawl with long fringe. The square shaped shawl has fringe on all four sides. The central panel of the shawl has three bands of embroidery. Along the outer edge is a band of embroidered leaves and flowers. The middle band is has different squares of flowering plants. The inner band consists of four large flowers embroidered in each corner.
shawls
silk (fiber)
Shawl
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P906
Unknown
59 14/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1326
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