Details
An embroidered coverlet
of white linen finely worked in yellow silks, with a central cartouche with a fleur-de-lys among scrolling flower stems in a field of floral sprigs with an inner border of feathery leaves with corner decoration to match centre, against a diaper ground, the outer border with similar scrolling flower stems and linen fly braid trimming--82 x 96in. (205 x 240cm), late 18th century
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of white linen finely worked in yellow silks, with a central cartouche with a fleur-de-lys among scrolling flower stems in a field of floral sprigs with an inner border of feathery leaves with corner decoration to match centre, against a diaper ground, the outer border with similar scrolling flower stems and linen fly braid trimming--82 x 96in. (205 x 240cm), late 18th century
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Provenance
Worked by a later descendant of Elizabeth Throckmorton of Coughton court