Panel for a skirt or petticoat

British

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With their finely scaled designs delicately executed in silk against vermiculated linen grounds, these panels were intended to be adapted into a dress skirt or possibly a petticoat. The floating elements of their chinoiserie motifs, however, speak as much to contemporary monumental wall tapestries as they do to the mania for decorating furniture with varnished cutouts in imitation of Asian lacquer work.

Panel for a skirt or petticoat, Silk embroidered on linen, British

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Panel for a skirt or petticoat, Silk embroidered on linen, British
Panel for a skirt or petticoat, Silk embroidered on linen, British
Panel for a skirt or petticoat, Silk embroidered on linen, British
Panel for a skirt or petticoat, Silk embroidered on linen, British

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