Embroidered panel
Lady Jane Grey (1537 - 1554)
Category
Textiles
Date
1537 - 1554
Materials
Linen, Metal thread, Silk embroidery thread, Wool
Measurements
600 x 765 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486522
Summary
An embroidered panel believed to be the work of Lady Jane Grey (executed 1554). The panel is embroidered on white silk on a linen support with coloured metal threads and wool work tendrils in a graceful and closely patterned scrolling design of birds, fruit, flowers, tudor roses and heraldic emblems within a wide border.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Makers and roles
Lady Jane Grey (1537 - 1554) , needleworker