An Aesthetic Movement Bamboo & Embroidered Silk Fire Screen

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An Aesthetic Movement Bamboo & Embroidered Silk Fire ScreenOrigin: English Period: Aesthetic Movement Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 47 inches Width: 27. 5 inches Depth: 11 inches A rectangular bamboo screen inset with a central black silk panel, embroidered in a formalised symmetrical design, incorporating leaves, stems and flowers. The silk does have some tears (visible in the images), but it could be restored, and the embroidery is complete and the colours still quite fresh. The bamboo screen

Period: Early-Twentieth Century

which is also known as muskroot

like this example

the heron bends over and grasps the cigarette in its beak (the cigarette has simultaneously pushed to the top of the box

burned and rebelled against the Government when they made concessions to Roman Catholics in legislation passed in 1768

enclosing a central panel composed of six medallions describing mediaeval scenes of beneficent men offering alms to the poor and needy

The company was eventually bought out in 1946 by Downs Surgical

however the labels have sadly all but perished leaving blank insets

Length: 281cms / 9

the top in two sections

The use of bright flowers in the design

In 1860 Swan developed a carbon-filament incandescent lamp (some twenty years before Edison