English satin Chinoiserie bed cover

An image of Textiles. Bed cover. Centre - a large wreath with exotic flowers and leaves with ribbon at bottom bearing name. To L. and R. date. At the top of wreath arms of Thurston of Challock quartering Woodward of Throwleigh and within it a landscape - an estuary with a ship in full sail, upon the far bank a bell tower and a shorter one with a spire which flies a flag, a cross, both completely overshadowed by an exotic tree which grows upon the near bank, to the left a man sits fishing, above a sun in splendour. A 12" wide border of detached motives, closely arranged - birds, bridges, exotic flowers, flowering trees, insects, pagodas, pavilions, etc. Ground between wreath and border dotted with similar motifs, all in Chinoiserie style. At the bottom a rectangle 18.75" x 17.5" has been rather untidily removed from either side to make it fit a four poster bed. Long and short, French knots, satin stitches, a little couching. Polychrome; black, blue, drab, green, red and yellow. White satin, embroidered silk with some metal thread (tarnished and in some cases metal perished leaving foundation silk yellow for gold and white for silver. Length, whole, 96.75 in, width, whole, 87 in, 1694. English.

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Textiles. Bed cover. Centre - a large wreath with exotic flowers and leaves with ribbon at bottom bearing name. To L. and R. date. At the top of wreath arms of Thurston of Challock quartering Woodward of Throwleigh and within it a landscape - an estuary with a ship in full sail, upon the far bank a bell tower and a shorter one with a spire which flies a flag, a cross, both completely overshadowed by an exotic tree which grows upon the near bank, to the left a man sits fishing, above a sun in splendour. A 12" wide border of detached motives, closely arranged - birds, bridges, exotic flowers, flowering trees, insects, pagodas, pavilions, etc. Ground between wreath and border dotted with similar motifs, all in Chinoiserie style. At the bottom a rectangle 18.75" x 17.5" has been rather untidily removed from either side to make it fit a four poster bed. Long and short, French knots, satin stitches, a little couching. Polychrome; black, blue, drab, green, red and yellow. White satin, embroidered silk with some metal thread (tarnished and in some cases metal perished leaving foundation silk yellow for gold and white for silver. Length, whole, 96.75 in, width, whole, 87 in, 1694. English.

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Accession Number: T.1-1952
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 842 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 1.00MB
Exposure time: 1/500
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2012:01:04 05:26:17

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17th Century bed cover bell tower birds campanile Chinoiserie coat of arms couched couching crest embroidered embroidery English family crest Fitz_AA floral flowers French knots heraldic heraldry insects metal metallic pagoda pavilion peacock peacock tail polychrome Restoration sailing ship satin satin stitch shield ships silk silks stitches stitching textile thread threads wreath

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