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AN IRISH GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK PANEL OF AN URN OF FLOWERS

SIGNED AND DATED 17 JULY 1738

Details
AN IRISH GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK PANEL OF AN URN OF FLOWERS
Signed and dated 17 July 1738
Worked with a central vase with bearded mask and outspringing acanthus above a gadrooned and fluted spreading socle issuing dense flowers including tulips, peonies, roses, lilies, carnations and other flowers, woven to the base with the inscription 'A..Y....Fecit Trallee July 17th 1738.', in a frame, probably originally from a pole screen
25½ in. (65 cm.) high; 18 in. (45.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
Acquired from Norman Adams, March 1977.
50 Years of Collecting:Decorative Arts of Georgian England, Christie's King Street, 14 May 2003, lot 1.
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Lot Essay

This firescreen panel evokes the Roman poet's Arcadia and concept of 'Ver Perpetuum' or everlasting spring. Venus's roses accompany a Pan-masked krater-vase overflowing with flowers. Displayed in a trompe l'oeil niche, it served like real 'bough pot' vases and those painted on chimneyboards to conceal the 18th century chimney-hearth, when not in use. (see M.R. Blacker, Flora Domestica, London, 2000, p. 59).

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