Valance
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silk cotton mix
Measurements
320 x 1355 mm; 40 mm (Width)
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 355819.1
Summary
Textile Box 12. First part of a valance, now in two pieces. Shaped and lined. Dark brown silk and cotton mix heavily brocaded in old gold, chestnut, pink, green and mauve. Jacquard pattern. Brown, green and beige fringed braid. Lined in fawn cotton. The room was painted with the valances up - have been hacked. BL115.1.
Provenance
Part of the Lothian Collection. The Hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1940 by Philip, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940).