Crimson Silk Brocade Panel Museum Worthy : early C1800s England Birds and insects With a fine handwoven geometric

With a fine handwoven geometric pattern and needlepoint embroidered flowers it’s a highly decorative panel

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Made in a gorgeous floppy silk which has a lovely drop and feels wonderful to wear

With a central motif of intertwining golden serpents with bowers of fruits and flowers on either side the work in this small piece is of the highest quality

loose threads and a few minor marks to lace

Crimson Silk Brocade Panel Museum Worthy : early C1800s England Birds and insects With a fine handwoven geometricItem Details. A wonderful panel of crimson magenta deep pinky red silk brocade. This is a furnishing weight silk and is of a very high quality, possibly made to furnish the walls of a spectacular room. The silk dates from the first half of the 19th century and was made in the UK, it has an original shop label which reads Muntzer & Son, 25 Regent Street, Piccadilly (London) which suggests it was never used, but there are stitching marks and the remains