Lot n° 234
Estimation :
6000 - 8000
EUR
Normandy-lacquered flatware, 1890-1900. - Lot 234
Normandy-lacquered flatware, 1890-1900.
For twenty-four place settings
The decoration is composed in three parts, from eighteen embroidered backgrounds and thirty-two different laces, a real anthology of embroidery and lace.
In the center, an oval with two embroidered backgrounds, itself surrounded by eight other backgrounds; then four cartouches with Renaissance style motifs with vase with swan neck handles flanked by two birds and scrolls, and horn vase with flowers surrounded by the same; two half-moons with embroidered butterflies.
At the ends, draped composition with three embroidered backgrounds.the laces used are, for those to the spindles: Duchess of Bruges,
Brussels, Applications of Brussels and England. For that with the needle: Venice.
For the various: Tulle rebrodé and Carrickmacross.
The embroideries of the funds are carried out with the majority of the twenty-five points of the white Embroidery.
These works called Normandy-laces were made for the most part in the workshops of Montmartre in Paris. These workshops were specialized in the restoration and reuse of laces that rich aristocratic families entrusted to them, in order not to let these precious laces and embroideries fall into oblivion.
= 175 x 480 cm
Nice condition. Some small brown spots
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