A Rare Late 19thC Spanish-American War Silkwork & Bullion Embroidery Military Banner

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A Rare Late 19thC Spanish-American War Silkwork & Bullion Embroidery Military BannerOrigin: American Period: Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Width: 29. 5 Depth: 1 Height: 26 The scarce silkwork and bullion embroidery, in unrestored original order, hand worked in silk threads featuring scratch and bullion embroidery with the American Eagle, anchor, and shield motifs, almost certainly from the Spanish American War Era, to a sea green ground and blue dogtooth border, the whole being glazed and presented in its original folk

he put a hinge in between two ladder sides to enable it to be stored more easily

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was taken from his tomb at Auteuil to be transferred to the cemetery of Valenciennes and its tomb was designed by the architect Ernest Thibaut

The backrest is loosely based on the Chinese Shou (longevity) character

this being a hybrid of the two

As she is decorated to all sides she is termed as a centre desk

golden lion tamarins

The large Scandinavian antique pine coffer or marriage chest with hand sawn two piece plank top and one piece back having polychrome painted decoration to the front in the form of floral rosettes and fern sprays

The type ultimately derives from the Aphrodite of Cnidus

Depth: 38” (all approximate & at extremities)

This is a particularly large example of which we’ve not seen the like of before to this scale

There are a few very minor areas of flaked loss and one can see where she once sat in a period frame with an outline to her borders and there are some spots of dirt to the flesh tones

Highly evocative of nautical disasters such as Titanic

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