WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)

Lot 27
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ID 964813
Lot 27 | WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)
Valeur estimée
$ 4 000 – 6 000
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)
AN ENGLISH WOOL AND LINEN EMBROIDERY HANGING, CIRCA 1860
Worked in a thick polychrome wool floss on a plain-woven linen depicting a fruit tree with birds and cranes, the tree wrapped with a garland depicting creatures and the motto 'Qui bien aime tard oublie' [who loves well, forgets slowly], together with a half panel of the same pattern
70 in. (177.8 cm.) long, 54 in. (137.2 cm.) wide




Provenance

William Bell Scott and Alice Boyd (1825–1897), 14th Laird, Penkill Castle, Ayrshire Scotland (the half panel).

By repute, to her stepfather Henry Courtney.

Thence by descent to Eleanor Margaret Courtney Boyd (1864-1946), 15th Laird, Penkill Castle (the half panel).

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 May 2000, lot 4 (the half panel).

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

William Morris, exh. cat., Victoria & Albert Museum, 9 May-1 September 1996, London, Cat. No. M.5, p. 235 (the half panel).

Jan Marsh and Liz Woods, 'Pilgrimage to Penkill', The Order of the Owl: Quarterly Journal of the Penkill Foundation, Vol. 6, No. 4, Autumn, 1991, p. 3 (the half panel).

Catalog of Christie's Penkill Castle House sale, 15 December 1992, introduction (the half panel).



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