Scarf - William Morris Pomegranate & Lily Art Pashmina

$ 49.00

Scarf - William Morris Pomegranate & Lily Art Pashmina

$ 49.00

80% Recyclable Polyester + 20% Recyclable Viscose. Machine washable. After wash, the tartan shawl still looks as new. The original Lily and Pomegranate pattern was available with a ivory, Jupiter blue, cobalt, heritage red or coal background, Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted no fewer than eight painting of William Morris wife, Jane Morris, as Proserpine, the goodness carried off by Pluto to his palace of the dead in the underworld, Jane was Rossetti's mistress for nearly a decade, from 1865-1876, when Jane discovered his addiction to the opiate laudanum, Rosetti also painted Jane as Beatrice, Pandora, and Astarte, but it was the goddess of the underworld that he returned again and again.