Ground: cream white cotton. Design: border of birds, fountains, baskets of flowers, and butterflies printed from wood blocks with red, pink, and brown, outlines of dark brown. Faded, worn and stained. Brown dye has rotted the cotton.

Ground: cream-white cotton. Design: printed from wood blocks with red, violet, neutral yellow, and dark neutral violet lines and accents; border of urns containing piles of fruit, birds, and butterflies.

Beadwork on cotton foundation.  Polychrome design on clear ground: floral band center, clear lattice bands above and below, blue star at base.  Unlined.

Ground: cream-white cotton. Design: printed from wood blocks with red, blue, yellow, green (yellow on blue), and black lines on festooned draperies with fringe and tassels, and branches bearing leaves, flowers, and acorns. Very much worn and torn.

Buff-colored cotton ground, printed in pale pink and brown.  Pattern shows groups of pseudo-Chinese figures and architecture, ships, tropical plants and strings of paper lanterns.  Complete selvedges left and right.

1830 / 1850, Italy

1830 / 1850, Italy

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