AN 18TH CENTURY FRENCH SABLE WALLET

AN 18TH CENTURY FRENCH SABLE WALLET

C.1730

worked with silk thread and coloured glass beads, on a honeycomb web with green silk damask, with scenes of Cupid at archery practice firing at a heart target in front of a lake, below Cupid carrying the flaming torch of Hymen, the goddess of marriage, in a later glazed ebonised frame

31 x 26.2cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

See Xanthe brooke, The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Catalogue of Embroideries, pp.257-258 for a very similar example, almost certainly from the same workshop.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.133 for a discussion of this sable wallet.