No connection to server
Theme auctions online
From Tradition to Modernity: 200 Years of Finnish Rya rugs E1135
Auction:
Prints & Multiples Winter Edition F581
Auction:
Hans Wigert – Paintings and Prints F617
Auction:
Selected Carpets and Textiles F600
Auction:
Helsinki Design Sale F612
Auction:
Helsinki Spring Sale F613
Auction:
Live auctions
Contemporary Art & Design 662
Auction: April 15−16, 2025
Important Timepieces 663
Auction: April 15, 2025
Modern Art & Design 664
Auction: May 20−21, 2025
Important Spring Sale 665
Auction: June 11−13, 2025
416
786851

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

Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
535 - 713 EUR
546 - 728 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.