A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD POLE-SCREENS, each with foliate finial and turned shaft, the banners worked with petit point needlework depicting Charles I on the eve of his execution, with his family, and Oliver Cromwell, within red tasselled-borders above a pierced acanthus-carved stem and foliate-carved cabriole tripod base with scroll feet, distressed, one lacking foot, the other lacking two legs and a foot

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A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD POLE-SCREENS, each with foliate finial and turned shaft, the banners worked with petit point needlework depicting Charles I on the eve of his execution, with his family, and Oliver Cromwell, within red tasselled-borders above a pierced acanthus-carved stem and foliate-carved cabriole tripod base with scroll feet, distressed, one lacking foot, the other lacking two legs and a foot
57in. (145cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Peter Langford-Brooke (d. 1840)

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