Early Victorian Oak and Needlework Screen
A large early Victorian oak and needlework screen or room divider, each leaf of triple panelled form, inset with a total of twelve gros and petit-point needlework panels; four panels of an historicist nature populated with various figures dressed in 16th and 17th century attire; two featuring Ottoman horse riders; two pheasants; two depicting assorted flowers and foliage; one a floral-filled antique urn and another of a bouquet replete with various garden flowers, the reverse applied with polychrome decorated wallpaper backing.
This screen could also be used as doors on a run of fitted wardrobes
Provenance:
Christie’s, South Kensington, 9 February 2010, lot 165. £4,750







