Pole screen, mahogany tripod stand, English, 1753, Elizabeth Nickleson

Mahogany tripod stand, gadrooned at the lower and of the shaft, supporting a mahogany framed panel of needlework in coloured wools on gauze representing a basket of flowers and leaves in colours, principally green, against a reddish-brown ground; plain radial arched feet, the two fitted with flat bearings. The needlework panel is signed EN, for Elizabeth Nickleson, and dated in the right lower corner 1753

Bequeathed by Mary Metford Badcock ad Laura Metford Badcock

The maker, Elizabeth Nickleson (neé Growden), moved to Britain from Pennsylvania to marry Thomas Nickleson in 1748, a quaker merchant from Poole in Dorset.

Bequeathed by Mary Metford Badcock and Laura Metford Badcock in 1935.
Miss Laura Metford Badcock of Fons George House, Taunton, was the daughter of the later Robert Gibson Badcock of Taunton, banker. Her large bequest to the Victoria and Albert Museum included furniture, silver, textiles, drawings and a pair of portraits. This bequest was the joint property of Miss Mary Metford Badcock (died 1932) and Miss Laura Metford Badcock (died 1935) who were sisters. The objects belonged to the Metford family of Flook House Taunton, which they inherited from the Button family in 1763 and sold in 1868. The Metfords intermarried with the families of Ellis, Nickelson and Anderson.

W.38-1935