African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 8th June 2021
Lot 383
Four Swedish marriage cushions
Estimate £3,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £3200
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Description
Four Swedish marriage cushions
including a cut pile cushion worked figures wearing checked skirts, lozenges of foliage and initialled and dated ND A NO 1824L, with leather corner pom-poms, 113cm x 47cm;
a floral embroidered cushion schattersom, initialled and dated HND 1837, 101cm x 50cm;
an 18th century flame-stitch cushion, 107cm x 51cm;
and a flat-stitch cushion, Totna/Bara district, South West Skane, worked male and female figures amidst foliage and initialled ETD, circa 1790 - 1830, 94cm x 52cm. (4)