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Description: | grey linen canvas embroidered with an exotic bird and flowers in coloured wools and glass beads ('Berlin plushwork'); for a fire-screen, rectangle of canvas; selvedges at sides, narrow hems at top and bottom; disc shape of embroidery with a bird of paradise in the centre, with glass eye, beak-tip and legs in beads, perched on a branch, surrounded by an irregular horse-shoe shape of fruits, purple and white violets, pink and red roses, all in contoured plush-work; flat leaves in green cross-stitch with yellow silk details and 3 leaves in grey and black beads,
Accession number: NCM 1984-295 | Subjects: | needlework beadwork | Temporal: | 1845-1855 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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