Early 18th century EnglishThe central oval, borders, and square and quadrant sections finely worked in pale golden-yellow silk in chain stitch, long and short stitch, stem stitch and back stitch with exotic flowers, chinoiserie and turquerie motifs, some in the manner of Satgaon embroideries of the preceding century, including crowned and turbaned figures in chariots pulled by butterflies and stags, ho-ho birds, squirrels and a musketeer, over a diaper patterned ground, these applied together with smaller cut-out motifs to an unworked linen panel on which the ink drawn design remains visible. Edged with a yellow silk fringe and backed with linen. The V & A has a fragment of a comparable coverlet, accession number T.23-1946.Provenance: Sandford Orcas Manor House. This Dorset house was built by Edward Knoyle in the middle of the 16th century, but after the family’s Catholic and Royalist sympathies told against them over the course of the 17th century it was bought by John Hutchi...