Lot 1102
1102
AN ITALIAN SILK-STITCHED SIX-LEAF SCREEN
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more PROPERTY FROM KNEBWORTH HOUSE (LOTS 1102-1104) The following lots come from the great Hertfordshire house, Knebworth, home of the Lytton family since 1490. The pinnacled Gothic fantasy with its roofline of turrets, crenellation, gargoyles and cupolas actually conceals a much earlier building built by Sir Robert Lytton soon after he purchased the manor in 1490. Sir Robert built a quadrangular brick house around a courtyard and the house remained virtually unchanged until 1811 when Elizabeth Warbuton-Lytton (1773-1843) pulled down three sides of the Tudor house and encased the remaining wing in stucco with Gothic detailing. It was her son, the novelist Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) who further remodelled the house after he inherited it in 1843 and employed John Crace to decorate the interior. Much of Crace's decoration was swept away in Edwardian times by Sir Edwin Lutyens who had married into the family, but his magnificent State Drawing Room survives.
AN ITALIAN SILK-STITCHED SIX-LEAF SCREEN

18TH CENTURY, ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS A SUITE OF TWELVE HANGING PANELS

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AN ITALIAN SILK-STITCHED SIX-LEAF SCREEN
18th Century, originally conceived as a suite of twelve hanging panels
Each leaf lined on both sides, the panels with a central oval cartouche depicting rustic landscape vignettes, within foliate arabesques incorporating flowers, birds and garlanded canopies, the whole woven on an ivory ground within interlaced strapwork border with later velvet fringes and tasselled borders
Each leaf: 137 in. (348 cm.) high; 30 in. (78 cm.) wide
Provenance
Possibly Richard Warburton-Lytton (1745-1810), Knebworth House, Hertfordshire and by descent at Knebworth.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

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