Beschreibung:

Painted fabric. Three pieces of hand-painted fabric, English, 18th century, three matching cotton fragments, painted by hand in shades of bue, pink, purple, and black, on a natural cotton ground, two hand-painted with a cornucopia of flowers, one with additional joined piece below featuring bows and swags, some small holes (with occasional stitched consolidation) and light toning, largest 92.5 x 53 cm (36.5 x 21 ins), smallest 46.5 x 57 cm (18.25 x 22.5 ins), each stitch-mounted onto a double backing of cotton and linen, the other painted with a large oval posy of flowers tied with a bow, forming part of a large lined cushion cover, faded and lightly toned, 53 x 43 cm (21 x 17 ins), together with a hand-painted Regency bridal stole, circa 1800, silk gauze, delicately painted in shades of pink, blue, brown, green, and purple, and incorporating onlaid beads and spangles, with a heart-shaped foliate wreath at each end enclosing a pair of love birds and a quiver of arrows, above a floral swag and bows, with foliate border around edge, lined with muslin, and edged with cream satin ribbon, spotted, worn, and fragile, with losses, 359.5 x 41 cm (141.5 x 16.25 ins), with pinned paper label inscribed in early manuscript 'My dear Mother's work C. Williams' and below in another hand 'For Arthur Seymour Hope his Great Grandmother's work EHope 1877', plus another early manuscript label attached with thread 'Painted by M. F. Weinne(?) Seymour's Gt Grand Mother her Wedding Scarf', plus a set of three hand-painted decorative wall hangings, early 20th century, watercolour on silk gauze, depicting dog roses and butterflies, chrysanthemums and virginia creeper, and wisteria respectively, spotted and worn, 175 x 52 cm (69 x 20.5 ins), together with another slightly larger wall panel similar, painted in thick gouache on silk satin, depicting violets and heather, paint flaking in places, each backed and sewn onto batons (Qty: 8)