Pair of Georgian Antique Silkwork Floral Embroideries

Antique Silkwork Embroidery 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac'. The embroidery is worked in silk on a silk ground, in a variety of stitches. Colours...

Antique Silkwork embroidery of a bird in a tree. The embroidery is worked in silks on silk ground, in a variety of stitches. Colours black, blue, cop...

Late 17th Century, Miniature Silkwork Embroidery Reversable Picture. The embroidery is extremely finely worked in coloured silk threads on a paper or felt ground. Colours blues, gree...

Georgian Woolwork Embroidery of Dog & Cat. The piece is worked in tent stitch, using silk and wool thread. Colours black, green, white, silver and brown. Subject depicts an animated ...

Antique Sampler, 1821, by Susanna Farrow. The sampler is worked in silk on a linen ground, mainly in cross stitch. Meandering strawberry border. Colour...

Pair of Adams and Bromley (attributed) Majolica wall pockets which feature swans amongst cattails/bulrushes. Colouration: cobalt blue, green, white, are predominant.

A fine pair of English George III period silkwork pictures, dated 1797. These are charming Georgian (late 18th century) needleworks of children play...

Very fine Italian 18th century silkwork picture depicting Torquato Tasso, the great Italian Renaissance poet, finely wrought with hundreds of grey and w...

Pair of antique French framed floral oil paintings. Well executed pair of antique French floral oil paintings on wood in giltwood frames, ci...

Framed wall embroidery features beautiful floral motif on dark khaki fabric with wood frame, circa 1970s. Very good condition.

A fine pair of antique Georgian copper and brass colanders or sieves. These large sieves are hand forged and heavy with a beautiful old copper patina a...

Artistically framed for display in a slight shadow frame with non-reflective pixie glass, these pair of embroidery art panels from Japan are dated circa 1910-1930s, end of Meiji to early Taisho period. This period was the peak of the Japanese oversea expositions, when all things Japonisme took Europe and America by storm and left long-lasting impact on western art and design. The influence, however, was clearly not one-directional; As when Japanese artists, artisans and dealers experienced western art, it in turn inspired and impacted on the aesthetics of the Japanese art made for the western tastes. An interesting crop of art forms quickly emerged with a particular outlook that bridged the east and west, with the fundamental techniques still rooted in Japanese traditions. These rare hyper-realistic embroidered portraits were such an example. They took the essential format of the western portrait that permeated the Victoria and Edwardian Society, but substituted with exotic Japanese subjects and executed in traditional embroidery techniques which had been perfected for centuries by the natives. The two portraits on offer, one an elder man with long white beards and a pair of round spectacles lighting a pipe, and the other a grinning man with a peasant attire, were both set in black background, stimulating an appearance of Classic western oil painting or perhaps even the photograph. The fine stiches were maneuvered into an impressively hyper-realistic imagery that was far removed from the traditional Japanese embroidery...