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A GROUP OF ENGLISH CREWEL WOOL-EMBROIDERED BED HANGINGS
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Comprising three valances and three pairs of curtains, each woven in shades blue, yellow, pink, green and gold with sprays of summer flowers, one with initials P.E.W., one with E.S.8, altered and reduced from larger panels, on later linen ground--the valances approx. 58in. (147cm.) wide; the curtains approx. 77in. (196cm.) long x 22½in. (57cm.) wide (9)
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Comprising three valances and three pairs of curtains, each woven in shades blue, yellow, pink, green and gold with sprays of summer flowers, one with initials P.E.W., one with E.S.8, altered and reduced from larger panels, on later linen ground--the valances approx. 58in. (147cm.) wide; the curtains approx. 77in. (196cm.) long x 22½in. (57cm.) wide (9)
Provenance
Pytts family, Kyre Park, Worcestershire French & Co., New York, from whom purchased in late 1932
The hangings, which are reputed to have come from Kyre Park, Worcestershire when its furnishings were dispersed at a house sale in 1930, may have been commissioned by Edmund Pytts (d.1781) at the time that he was carrying out improvements at the house following his inheritance in 1752. The repeated pattern of baskets of flowers wreathed by serpentined garlands corresponds to designs for silk brocades of the period.
The hangings, which are reputed to have come from Kyre Park, Worcestershire when its furnishings were dispersed at a house sale in 1930, may have been commissioned by Edmund Pytts (d.1781) at the time that he was carrying out improvements at the house following his inheritance in 1752. The repeated pattern of baskets of flowers wreathed by serpentined garlands corresponds to designs for silk brocades of the period.