£500
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 593
Auction: 1 April 2020 at 11:00 BST
with a repeat pattern of birds within flowering foliage on a red ground, with cotton backing and later-applied braided edge
Literature: Gere, Charlotte and Whiteway, Michael Nineteenth Century Design, London 1993, pp. 162-3 illus.
See V&A T.10-1990 for an example with a brown satin ground
Note: This design was exhibited at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876 and was illustrated by Talbert in Examples of Ancient & Modern Furniture, published in 1876.