A panel of textured slate blue silk woven with three ivory stripes filled with small stylised flowerheads with black outlines, and wavy and feathered edges also in black, probably Maze and Steer--19in x 18in., framed and glazed, 1780s

細節

A panel of textured slate blue silk woven with three ivory stripes filled with small stylised flowerheads with black outlines, and wavy and feathered edges also in black, probably Maze and Steer--19in x 18in., framed and glazed, 1780s

來源

Traditionally said to have been part of a dress worn by Marie Antoinette

拍品專文

The same flowerhead pattern is shown in a Maze and Steer silk design of 1786, illustrated in "Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century", Nathalie Rothstein - plate 330, page 270