A PAIR OF ENGLISH NEEDLEWORK GLOVE CUFFS

A PAIR OF ENGLISH NEEDLEWORK GLOVE CUFFS

EARLY 17TH CENTURY

embroidered with red silk and purled metallic thread, on an ivory silk ground, decorated with roses in arbours and with crowned rosettes, with silver thread fringed edges, in a later glazed ebonised frame

11 x 27.5cm

Provenance

The Richmond Collection of Early English Needlework, Bonhams, London, 2nd March 2011, lot 30.

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