Lot 141
141
A fine needlework book cover, worked in tent, knot, rococo and long and short stitches, to the left with Moses holding the tablets of stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments, to the right with Aaron wearing a papal tiara, his robes fringed with golden bells, a flowering wand in his hand and censer at his feet, the spine with a leopard, parrot, sunflower and lion--9½ x 13¼in. (24 x 33.5cm.), English, first quarter of the 17th century, framed and glazed
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A fine needlework book cover, worked in tent, knot, rococo and long and short stitches, to the left with Moses holding the tablets of stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments, to the right with Aaron wearing a papal tiara, his robes fringed with golden bells, a flowering wand in his hand and censer at his feet, the spine with a leopard, parrot, sunflower and lion--9½ x 13¼in. (24 x 33.5cm.), English, first quarter of the 17th century, framed and glazed

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A fine needlework book cover, worked in tent, knot, rococo and long and short stitches, to the left with Moses holding the tablets of stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments, to the right with Aaron wearing a papal tiara, his robes fringed with golden bells, a flowering wand in his hand and censer at his feet, the spine with a leopard, parrot, sunflower and lion--9½ x 13¼in. (24 x 33.5cm.), English, first quarter of the 17th century, framed and glazed
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Provenance
Formerly in the collections of Adele Kneeland of Lenox, Massachusetts and Irwin Untermyer, New York.
Literature
'English And Other Needlework Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection', Thames and Husdon, London, 1960, plate 36.
Exhibited
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 'English Domestic Needlework', 1945
Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, New York, 'Stitches in Time', 1947
Baltimore Museum of Art, 'History of Bookbinding 525-1950A.D.', 1957
Special notice
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