- 712
An English needlework carpet mid 19th century
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description
- 69cm. long, 163cm. wide; 2ft. 3in., 5ft. 4in.
of rectangular form, worked in polychrome wool threads in tent stitch, with a central pale blue entablature enclosing a standing figure of Britannia and a kneeling figure of Neptune, offering his trident, worked in shades of orange, on a tobacco coloured central field with red foliate motifs, all within an outer four-sided border of foliage on a red ground, with an inner and outer narrow beaded edging,