Crimson Silk Brocade Panel Museum Worthy : early C1800s England Birds and insects 18th century dress silk hand

18th century dress silk hand painted in China for use by the fashionable aristocracy of Europe

163 x 88cm approximately

Embroidered in soft coloured wools onto a hessian backing and finished with a pretty decorative border or frame

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 18th century dress silk handItem 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