A SET OF FIVE ENGLISH EMBROIDERY AND RAISED-WORK PANELS DEPICTING CHINOISERIE SCENES, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

These panels are inspired by tapestries woven with fanciful Chinoiserie scenes on a dark brown ground, first designed by the Huguenot weaver John Vanderbank, who held the position of Yeoman Arras-Maker to the Great Wardrobe, supplying the royal family from his premises in Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London, from 1689 until his death in 1717. Vanderbank provided a series of such tapestries, described as 'after the Indian manner', to Queen Mary at Kensington Palace during the 1690s, and the style proved popular and was produced more widely by both Vanderbank and other London tapestry workshops operating in Soho in the early 18th century.