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Furnishing fabric
- Place of origin:
Spitalfields (possibly, made)
- Date:
ca. 1714 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Silk velvet
- Credit Line:
Given by Mr F. Mallet
- Museum number:
T.107&A-1930
- Gallery location:
In Storage
These panels of velvet are of the same pattern as the hangings of a bed and matching furniture ordered for Queen Anne in 1714. The bill for the velvet survives, from John Johnson and Company, Mercers : 'For 321 yds.1/8 of white, Crimson and yellow figur'd Velvet for a Standing Bedd Compleate, three pair of large windo Currtains, Vallance and Cornishes, a large Arm Chair and 8 square Stools at 42s p. yard.'
The velvet is traditionally said to have been woven in Spitalfields, London, although there is no documentary evidence to support this. Stylistically this is possible, if compared with designs by the Spitalfields silk designer and master weaver James Leman. Without other supporting evidence high quality multi-coloured furnishing velvets such as this are usually presumed to have been woven in Genoa, Italy.