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Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Curved Hourglass Shapes Flanked by Two Pearls Framed with Garlands of Stylized Leaves with Offsetting Thorns
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Gouache
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Museum Accession transferred from the Library
Title: Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Curved Hourglass Shapes Flanked by Two Pearls Framed with Garlands of Stylized Leaves with Offsetting Thorns
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Gouache.
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