Price: on request
Ref N°: 8444
Three different size motifs, some with earthy hillocks with two leafy stems and different flowers, other motifs of a variety of flowers caught at the base, with some additional small flower groups, all in shaded pink, red, blue, yellow, green worsted wools, on a linen ground, the background embroidered and quilted in yellow worsted wools in a trellis design.
The backing linen is the same linen as the top layer. The waistband is of a finer linen.
The skirt is made up of three widths of 65 cm wide selvedge to selvedge. 7ft or 84 in x 37 in; 2.14 m x 94 cm
The motifs 8 1/2 in; 21 cm high to 6 1/2 in; 16.5 cm
Waistband 6 3/4 in; 7 cm deep
Excellent. A few yellow trellis stitches missing.
collections.mfa.org/objects/119799, This is only 1.25 cm circumference.
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A charming example of a Queen Anne period (1665-1714) embroidered and false quilted unpicked skirt, which could quite easily be sewn back into a skirt. False quilted because there is no inner wadding and therefore not tecnically quilted. It just looks quilted.
Provenance: From the private collection of Roderick and Valentine Butler, antique dealers, who lived in Marwood House, High Street, Honiton, East Devon.