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Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silk, cotton and manmade fibre
Measurements
245 x 240 cm
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1656914
Summary
Reredos above fireplace. Three vertical sections of fabric, two of damask and one of velvet with a patterned border around the edges. The border is yellow/cream satin 23 cm wide, with brick orange velvet with a cut out pattern applied onto the ground. The cut out design is outlined in white cord. There are blue taffeta cloudlike motifs and small roundels in grey damask applied embroidered with gold thread.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013