A CHARLES I SILK-EMBROIDERED PICTURE

CIRCA 1640

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A CHARLES I SILK-EMBROIDERED PICTURE
Circa 1640
Depicting Charles I and Henrietta Maria surrounded by exotic birds, insects, a recumbent lion with the face of King Charles, stag, flowering and fruiting trees, with a castle and cottage in the distance, and a pond with fish in the foreground, the back with old dealer's tag numbered 7623 and coded RHN/OBN and with printed Untermyer label numbered 214N, in 17th Century style walnut and fruitwood marquetry frame
15¾in. (40cm.) high, 19¼in. (49cm.) wide

Provenance

Sir William Lever, Bt., later 1st Viscount Leverhulme.
The late Viscount Leverhulme, The Hill, Hampstead, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 9 February 1926 (= first day of sale), lot 111 (illustrated in the sale catalogue).
Judge Irwin Untermyer, New York (collection number 214N), sold Sotheby's London, 28 March 1969, lot 41 (£220 to Vigo).

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960, pl.31, fig.48 (illustrated in its present frame).

Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, English Domestic Needlework, 1945.

Lot Essay

This needlework once formed part of two of the most celebrated collections of the twentieth century. First Viscount Leverhulme's exceptional collection of needlework is only one manifestation of his passion for the English arts that are now largely housed in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, a house museum that he established in Port Sunlight in 1922. Fine examples from Judge Irwin Untermyer's collection of furniture and needlework are now on view in the galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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