MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER

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A SET OF SEVEN EMBROIDERED SATIN CURTAINS
MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER
Each with 18th century orange, green and brown appliqué wool and silk raised relief depicting scrolling and flowering branches, on late 19th century cream satin panels, with fringes
173 x 70 ¾ in. (440 x 180 cm.), the set of three
137 x 70 ¾ in. (350 x 180 cm.), the two pairs

Provenance

Rothschild collection.

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Lot Essay

Some closely related curtains with allegorical figures, probably originally from the same set, were sold at Osenat, Fontainebleau, 29 June 2008, lot 77; other curtains from the same set were sold at Christie's, Paris, 5 November 2014, lot 66.

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