Lot 27
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A PAIR OF FRENCH NEEDLEWORK WALL HANGINGS

FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

Details
A PAIR OF FRENCH NEEDLEWORK WALL HANGINGS
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Each worked in wools and silk, the yellow ground decorated with trailing flowers and leaves
99¼ x 41 in. (252 x 104 cm.) (2)
Literature
L. Synge, Art of Embroidery, Woodbridge, 2001, pl. 154.
Special notice
Buyers from within the EU: VAT payable at 17.5% on just the buyer's premium (NOT the hammer price) Buyers from outside the EU: VAT payable at 17.5% on hammer price and buyer's premium. If a buyer, having registered under a non-EU address, decides that an item is not to be exported from the EU, then he/she should advise Christie's to this effect immediately.

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Lot Essay

The colourful varie-flowered shrubs of these India-fashioned hangings evoke the Roman ver perpetuum of everlasting Spring. They evolved from the Elizabethan crewel-work 'tree-of-life' hangings, and the 17th century East India Company 'chintz' textiles introduced in fashionable bedroom apartments. Similar shrubs within foliated borders feature on an 18th century French folding-screen illustrated in L. Synge, Art of Embroidery, Woodbridge, 2001 (pl. 176).

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