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Design for a Woven or Embroidered Corner Motif

Fantastical flower arrangement, featuring a bunch of light purple flowers emerging from the center of a red and yellow flower, positioned on top of a group of green, red, yellow, and white leaves. Other flowers and leaves in red, yellow, green, and purple are distributed around the main arrangement.

Credit: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council

1810-30
Brush and gouache on oiled translucent paper
1925-1-131
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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