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A Chinese export silk and polychrome embroidered bedspread, for the European Market early 18th century
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- 280cm. x 285cm.
worked in polychrome silk threads on a satin weave yellow silk ground, with a central field worked with a strapwork trellis with foliage, flowers and birds in each corner, Chinese masks and putti, dragonflies and cranes, with a deep outside border with scrolls, flowers and fox like animals, with a three sided polychrome fringe, top corner sections without embroidery