Charming Appliquéd Still Life with Early 18th Century Silk Embroidered Flowers, Bird and Fruit: C1910 English Persian textiles It has a lovely bold

It has a lovely bold design in a gorgeous soft muted faded(

The cap or bonnet is fully lined in its original bottle green silk

this would have been made for domestic interiors

naturalistic floral motifs set against a dark background

Charming Appliquéd Still Life with Early 18th Century Silk Embroidered Flowers, Bird and Fruit: C1910 English Persian textiles It has a lovely boldThe minute I saw this I knew it was special. Scrawled on the reverse card and barely legible was Hand embroidery worked on a cream silk bedspread around 1720. Handmade by somone with a good eye around 1910 20, they have carefully cut the silk embroidered slips and arranged them onto a linen background with silk foreground to form this charming appliqud still life with bird. We carefully removed the frame, which did not do the piece justice) and the