Lot Essay
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
Details
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
Provenance
Traditionally said to have been part of a dress worn by Marie Antoinette