Lot Essay
These curtains were removed from the Covent Garden Suite, Woburn, in 1985
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TWO PAIRS OF CURTAINS
Of golden yellow silk damask, woven with bouquets of flowers set within an ogival lattice of climbing roses, with ribbons and bows, damages, all with areas of shredding, fading and losses,
141¾ in. (360 cm.) x 55 in. (140 cm.);
together with some associated fragments, 19th Century; with a separate single curtain of fine golden yellow silk damask woven with out-sized flowers, lined with yellow silk, probably 18th Century - 90½ in. (230 cm.) x 110¼ in. ( 110 cm.)
Of golden yellow silk damask, woven with bouquets of flowers set within an ogival lattice of climbing roses, with ribbons and bows, damages, all with areas of shredding, fading and losses,
141¾ in. (360 cm.) x 55 in. (140 cm.);
together with some associated fragments, 19th Century; with a separate single curtain of fine golden yellow silk damask woven with out-sized flowers, lined with yellow silk, probably 18th Century - 90½ in. (230 cm.) x 110¼ in. ( 110 cm.)
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