MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS INTEREST. A CREWELWORK NEEDLEWORK FRAGMENT

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS INTEREST. A CREWELWORK NEEDLEWORK FRAGMENT

16TH CENTURY AND LATER

the fragment worked with flowers and leaves on a velvet ground, later mounted in a glazed gilt composition frame, with a handwritten paper label in a 19th century hand, inscribed 'A piece of the Bed-Hanging embroidered by Mary Queen of Scots and her Ladies. Brought from Scone Palace about 1820'

12.5 x 9cm (the fragment), 32 x 19.5cm (the frame)

Provenance

Athelhampton House.

Sold by Duke's, Athelhampton House Sale, 9th October 2019, lot 226.