Crimson Silk Brocade Panel Museum Worthy : early C1800s England Birds and insects Watch this space

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

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

Dating from the second quarter of the 19th century this lovely red and white toile

Crimson Silk Brocade Panel Museum Worthy : early C1800s England Birds and insects Watch this spaceItem 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