#6570 $1,400 Sold
Deco lamé shawl, 1920s
I love the unique design of this exceptional Art Deco shawl. Each corner has a large bronze lamé wreath superimposed with a realistic bouquet of melon, purple, blue, and rose flowers with green leaves. The design artfully combines bold scale and brilliant color.
Each of the four colors for the bouquet flowers has a neat circular form, so typical of early Deco art. It often used simple geometric forms combined with bold graphic color schemes.
The major French fashion magazine of the 1920s Art,Goût,Beauté summed up fashion in the 1920s: "a unique combination of exoticism and modernity, which was at the core of the Art Deco movement."
The metallic brocaded design is beautifully woven on a ground of black silk crepe de chine. The exquisite mellow patina is icing on the cake. The shawl has a 21"- wide border of hand-knotted silk fringe.
The condition is excellent.
It measures 91" square, including the fringe.
