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Stuart Period Slip
1660

The embroidery on this piece is extremely fine and the colours clear and bright.


Cataloguing

A stem carrying four medlar fruits of different sizes in ochre, pale brown, palest pink, shades of green and off white, the poointed leaves in shades of green, yellow and brown, the stem cut on the slant, all in silks in finest tent stitch.



6 in x 4 3/4 in wide actual embroidery



15 x 12 cm



Now moutned on coarse natural linen, wrapped over acid free board ready for framing.


Condition

Excellent. Unfaded.  I can probably find a plain and very suitable old oak frame from c 1900 which look good with early embroideries.


Comments

Refer to my ARTICLE on Slips.



The Victoria & Albert Museums's Textile Collection. Embroidery in Britain 1200-1750 p 55 for similar slips.