been hung in landscape position
The ogee feet are all original
One of the cases has a museum standard label to the interior explaining the life and habitat of the pipistrelle bat
unapologetic exuberance
Burning incense in such pretty vessels as these enjoyed a vogue among European fashionables during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
A Persian Style Velvet & Silk Embroidered Panel c.1900 sub-Macabre- Medicine been hung in landscape positionOrigin: Continental Period: Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Width: 34. 5 Height: 22. 5 (without loops) The pale gold velvet panel, with a richly embroidered wide border, depicting peacocks, urns, and floral and foliate tendrils, expertly worked in gold metalled threads and brightly coloured silks, in shades of blue, turquoise, pink, and purple, backed with cream cotton a braided edging and hanging corner loops, the whole surviving the