Pair of Unused 19th Century French Glass Beadwork, Silk Needlepoint Panels to Make Pillows Silver-Plate It has a feel of

It has a feel of Grinling Gibbons' works (the Michelangelo of carved wood

It is in an antique heavy wood frame with plaster or gesso appliqué which suffers some loss

wood grains and often plain hardware seen here is typical of that aesthetic

She is posed and enhanced by the flowers displaying her allegiance to the crown

nothing serious at all - it has aged very gracefully

Pair of Unused 19th Century French Glass Beadwork, Silk Needlepoint Panels to Make Pillows Silver-Plate It has a feel ofFrom my lifelong stash of "to be made up as luxuriant down filled and lushly fringed pillow" panels, tapestries, this pair are actually Napoleon III (c. 1850 70, mid Victorian era) panels that were created and never made up into (surely) the stunning set of matching sofa pillows they were intended to become. Fabulous colors to work, the wide outer silk needlework band is actually a bit of a creamy caramel rather than gold as it comes up in a couple of