20th Nov, 2020 12:00 GMT/BST

Fans & Fancies - Online auction

 
Lot 5270
 

5270

An Exquisite, Tiny 18th Century (or Early 19th Century) Child's Cap of cream silk, worked in...

An Exquisite, Tiny 18th Century (or Early 19th Century) Child's Cap of cream silk, worked in three sections, each embroidered in metal threads and coloured silk in a design of flowers and leaves. The central panel is worked with three simple floral sprays, the flower heads being made from pressed shapes, each flower different from another. A band of tiny gold sequins runs down both sides. The panels are separated by a gold braid with silver centre. Each side panel features a larger floral spray in the same style, and the pressed flower shapes, in the same shades of cerise, and green, are supplemented with smaller gold flower heads and an undulating gold sequin border. Lined with a printed cotton, cream background, wide stripes of red foliate design with small floral detail at intervals, alternating with narrow stripes featuring black and turquoise. Hints of glaze just discernible.

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £300


 

. Several of the pressed flower heads are missing, the stitches remain.

 


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Auction: Fans & Fancies - Online auction, 20th Nov, 2020

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