Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 25
FOUR ECCLESIASTICAL NEEDLEWORK APPLIQUES
Estimate £500 - £800
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Description
FOUR ECCLESIASTICAL NEEDLEWORK APPLIQUES
POSSIBLY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
with two further border fragments, worked with petit point and braid, with silk, seedpearls, spangles and silver and gilt metal thread, on a vellum and linen silk ground, depicting the four Evangelists, with leaf and grapevine borders, probably these would have decorated a priest's chasuble, mounted as one, in a later glazed and gilt and wood frame
52 x 54.5cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp.136-137 for a discussion of these appliques.