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A double-interlocked tapestry carrige cushion from the first half of the 19th century, ca 85 x 55 cm, Scania, Sweden
Estimate
12 000 - 15 000 SEK
1 140 - 1 430 EUR
1 200 - 1 500 USD
Hammer price
13 000 SEK
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A double-interlocked tapestry carrige cushion from the first half of the 19th century, ca 85 x 55 cm, Scania, Sweden
Probably the district of Vemmenhög. An octagon with a women with raised hands surrounded by St. Andrew's crosses and brook horses. With original back piece.
Literature
Willborg, Peter: Flatweaves from Fjord and Forest; Scandinavian Tapestries of the 18th and 19th Centuries, London 1984, color plate 28, p. 71.
More information
Groups of women are often associated in scandinavian folklore with otherworldly visitors who bring good fortune, gifts and blessings to newborn children. These could be the folkloristic descendants of attendants of Freyja, or even decendents of the nors, the three fates of norse mythology, the equvenlent of fairy godmothes in european fairy-tales.