Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
7 November 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/876
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    28 29 30 d1 32 33 o4 30 6 A PAIR OF 18TH CENTURY SATIN CuRTAINS in dark blue, worked with a flowering tree pattern in silks and bullion work, 3 ft. 4an. by 7 ft. A FRENcH 17TH CENTURY TAPESTRY PicTuRE of the Madonna, in colours, 17 in. by 134 in., in black frame 17th Century gold Lace, a length of 44 yds., 8 in. wide AN OLD GREEK ISLAND CovER, very finely embroidered on linen with a diaper pattern of formal leaves in green, red, yellow and brown silks, 67 in. by 38 in. A Cover, of late 17th Century green silk damask, with border, Jin. wide, of tent stitch in polychrome, 8 ft. by 7 ft. AN InpDo-PoRTUGUESE COVER, in linen, finely worked with a Chinese pattern of pagodas, flowers, animals, etc. in yellow silk, 68 in, by 83 wn.; late 17th Cent. AN EXTREMELY FINE INDO-PoRTUGUESE CovER, c. 1700, in “blue du roi” satin, minutely worked in pale coloured silks with a central, medallion on a ground of scrolling flowers with double-headed pheenixes at the corners, floral borders and polychrome silk fringe, 9 ft. by 8 ft. A NEEDLEWORK Sora Back, worked with Venus at the forge of Vulcan, grey silks on cream, 18 in. wide, 63 in. long, framed ** This piece was cut with a sword from a settee in the private sitting room of Napoleon I, after Waterloo, by Lieutenant Westwood, an ancester of the present owner.