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  • Valance (possibly England), 1840s

    Woven yellow cotton valance with a double layer of lambrequins. Cream and rust colored passimentre trim.

  • Valance, 17th century

    Long border or valance of white-on-white embroidery showing confronted birds and trees.

  • Valance (India), 18th century

    Scalloped valence with one seam. Chintz fabric features pineapples and exotic botanicals in brown, purple, greens, yellow, pink and red on a white ground.

  • Valance, early 17th century

    Multicolor embroidery showing St Catherine, St Barbara, the Cross, the face of Christ, the sacred monogram, the symbols of the Evangelists, and the figures of monks and nuns. With the…

  • Valance (Spain), late 17th century

    Horizontal panel with scallops at the lower edge. Green velvet with appliquéd ornament in the design of conventionalized flowers in blue, red, yellow and white.

  • Valance (England), 18th century

    Indian chintz. Twelve fragmentary pieces sewn together to form three complete and part of one window valance. Design of flowers – in Indian style – in blue and red outlined…

  • Valance (Spain), 18th century

    Valance of white linen patterned by open weaving also known as “red de telar” or “red de Val de Verdja.” Design shows a central female figure holding candles and flanked…

  • Valance (France), 19th century

    Scalloped valance made from several pieces of a thin beige silk cloth, horizontally ribbed and with finely drawn naturalistic bunches of garden flowers with widely scattered detached sprigs, in deeper…

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