Lot 1100
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A SET OF THIRTEEN LATE VICTORIAN POLYCHROME SILKWORK PANELS
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A SET OF THIRTEEN LATE VICTORIAN POLYCHROME SILKWORK PANELS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF THIRTEEN LATE VICTORIAN POLYCHROME SILKWORK PANELS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each depicting scrolling foliage enclosing the Grosvenor coat-of-arms of a wheatsheaf, three large panels in gilt-mahogany bolection frames, the others previously framed, the lower edge with monogram VR below a coronet, the stretchers with various pencil inscriptions denoting that panel's position in the room, the two narrow panels with inscriptions relating to Room 105, seven mid-sized panels with inscriptions relating to Room 106, The Ebury Dressing-Room (one large panel, four slightly smaller panels and two smaller panels), one of the largest panels inscribed 'North End of Room Right Hand Side of Arch Right Side of Entrance No.1 107', and one of the other two matching large panels of the largest size with an inscription 'Ebury Sitting Room', presumably Room 107
The four large panels
Two framed: 95¾ x 77¾ in. (243 x 197.5 cm.)
One framed: 95¾ x 76½ in. (243 x 194 cm.)
One unframed: 91 x 72¼ in. (231 x 183.5 cm.)
Five mid-sized panels
One panel: 91 x 51 in. (231 x 129.5 cm.)
Four panels: 91 x 49¼ in. (231 x 125 cm.)
Two panels: 91 x 41¼ in. (231 x 104.5 cm.)
The two narrow panels
One: 91 x 16½ in. (231 x 42 cm.)
The other: 91 x 17¾ in. (231 x 45 cm.) (13)
Provenance
The Dukes of Westminster, The Ebury Rooms, Eaton Hall, Cheshire.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The heraldically charged and richly filigreed floral hangings, bearing the Grosvenor family arms of a golden wheatsheaf, are designed in the late 19th century Renaissance fashion. The corn, which is also emblematical of the Summer and Earth Deity Ceres, crowns a beribboned and symmetrically drawn bouquet of flowers issuing from laurel-enriched Roman acanthus. There is a possibility that the hangings were executed at the Royal School of Needlework, which had been founded in 1872 by Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein; and may have been commissioned to commemorate the marriage in 1909 of Millicent Constance Grosvenor (d. 1944), sister of William, later 3rd Duke of Westminster, to William Molyneux Clarke.

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