Lot 224
  • 224

A Russian Embroidery

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • approximately 41 by 81cm., 1ft. 4in. by 2ft. 8in.
the crimson silk ground densely worked in silver and gilt metal thread with an Ottoman influenced design of bold split pomegranate motifs enclosing stylised tulips and carnations in the Turkish manner

Condition

Metal thread and velvet, generally in very good condition
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Catalogue Note

Please see Yefimova, L & Belogorskaia, R., La Broderie et la Dentelle russes, Moscow, 1986, pl.22, & p.221, for a related embroidery, formerly in the collection of P.I. Chtchoukine, acquired 1905, in the State Museum of History, Moscow.