Production: Unknown
Linen panel from a bed tent opening embroidered with lightly twisted polychrome silks (red, light and dark green, light and dark brown, pink, yellow and mid-blue) worked in a multi-directional cross stitch. A vertical repeat pattern, sometimes called 'broad leaf and peacock pattern', that is a stylized leaf and possibly a bird design is represented on the panel.
Purchased with the Marianne Ellis Fund
Length: 154 cm
Width: 27 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1997-04-28) by Wentworth, Judy
18th Century
Circa
1701
CE
-
Circa
1801
CE
Panel such as these are found on some Rhodian bed tents (sparvers) either worked vertically on each side of the tent opening, or in horizontal bands approximately a third of the way up the tent panels. Panels completely covered with polychrome embroidery are very much rarer than the more usual arrangement of highly stylized leaf and branch motifs, worked in one, or sometimes two colours, placed in regular lines or forming borders on a plain linen ground.
ground
Linen
twisted silk
Silk
Weaving
: Linen panel from a bed tent opening embroidered with lightly twisted polychrome silks (red, light and dark green, light and dark brown, pink, yellow and mid-blue) worked in a multi-directional cross stitch. A vertical repeat pattern, sometimes called 'broad leaf and peacock pattern', that is a stylized leaf and possibly a bird design is represented on the panel.
Embroidering
Accession number: T.4-1997
Primary reference Number: 110447
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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