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A CARRIAGE CUSHION. Double-interlocked tapestry. 48 x 109 cm. Skytts/Oxie district, Scania, Sweden. Dated 1781.

Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
537 - 716 EUR
549 - 733 USD
Hammer price
20 000 SEK
Purchasing info
A CARRIAGE CUSHION. Double-interlocked tapestry. 48 x 109 cm. Skytts/Oxie district, Scania, Sweden. Dated 1781.

Signed KPD INS APD. A terracotta coloured ground with three large polychrome star-shaped flowers, minor ornaments and step formations. The ends with a lightning pattern. Filled.

Senare bakstycke. Något slitage och smutsig, smärre fläckar, skador och hål, lagningar.

Provenance

The architect Folke Zettervall and his second wife Ellen (born Bergman), Odengatan 3 in Stockholm. Folke Zettervall designed and constructed the building at Odengatan 3 between 1909-1910. The family with staff lived there. Thereafter the building belonged to SAR (Sverige arkitekters riksförbund), nowadays it hosts the Embassy of Brazil.