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Queen Anne Embroidery
c 1720

Yellow muga silk from Dacca, Bengal, India was a very popular colour in the early 18th century. This small fragment would be lovely framed.  I have other fragments similar.


Cataloguing

the natural linen embroidered in bright yellow and terracotta twisted silks, with a large flowerhead, with three dimensional stamens, leaves and smaller flowers, on a linen ground worked in muga silk in back stitch with small scrolls.



5x 6 1/2 in/ 12 x 17 cm


Condition

Very good. Notice the diagonal join across the top left hand corner.


Comments


  • King, Donald & Levy, Santina Embroidery in Britain from 1200-1750 plate 105

  • Textiles at Temple Newsam ref 377, p88.