An unusual appliqu panel, the speckled brown ground applied with various shades of green wool forming the grass and stalks from which sprout four sunflowers, the centres of black velvet, one missing, the petals of yellow satin, with embroidered details and woolwork daisies on the grass, edged with black velvet on three sides--52 x 40in. (130 x 101cm.), probably 1880s, backed, some wear

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An unusual appliqu panel, the speckled brown ground applied with various shades of green wool forming the grass and stalks from which sprout four sunflowers, the centres of black velvet, one missing, the petals of yellow satin, with embroidered details and woolwork daisies on the grass, edged with black velvet on three sides--52 x 40in. (130 x 101cm.), probably 1880s, backed, some wear
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Sunflowers were a motif made popular by embroiderer's working within the Aesthetic Movement of the last quarter of the 19th century. A set of door hangings at the Town Hall in Manchester also use sunflowers as appliqu decorations. These were made at the Royal School of Needlework in the 1870s from designs by Alfred Waterhouse.

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