拍品 905
  • 905

A CHARLES II BEADWORK PANEL, POSSIBLY A BASKET FRAGMENT, MID-17TH CENTURY |

估價
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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描述

  • Height with frame 17 1/2 in. by Width 22 in.; 27.9 by 38.1 cm.
of multicolored beads within a wire grid framework; depicting a lady and gentleman below a crown flanked by a lion and unicorn; in a parcel gilt and ebonized moulded frame

來源

Cora Ginsburg, New York, February 1976;
Vogel Collection no. 234.

Condition

In good condition overall, with a few split threads and scattered losses of beads. The white bead square backgrounds detached from the grid frame in a few places. Not examined out of frame, which has rubbing and scattered minor nicks to the ebonized and gilt surfaces.
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拍品資料及來源

Related panels with a similar distinctive grid pattern appear as the base in several surviving 17th-century beadwork baskets, including examples in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the Treasurer's House, York (National Trust); and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.  Beadwork baskets are traditionally thought to have been a domestic art fashioned by gentlewomen from wealthy households, using expensive glass beads imported from Amsterdam and Venice. It has also been suggested that individual components were professionally manufactured and sold as kits.