Live Auction 6359Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
AN EMBROIDERED COVERLET
Lot 28

AN EMBROIDERED COVERLET

MRS ROBERT BENSON, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed21 June 2011

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GBP 562

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AN EMBROIDERED COVERLET
MRS ROBERT BENSON, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The yellow satin ground worked in coloured silks in the Arts and Crafts style, with meandering oak trees, grapes and yellow and white flower heads, within a scrolling framework
75 x 71 in. (191 x 180 cm.)
With paper label, which reads 'Made and presented by Mrs Robert Benson, Walpole House, Chiswick Mall, W.4.'

Specialist note

Mrs Robert Benson was the wife of R H Benson, a trustee of the National Gallery from 1912 and a collector of paintings, Chinese porcelain and other works of art. Mr and Mrs Benson lived at Walpole House from 1926. The late Mrs Robert Benson's collection was sold at Sotheby's in 1945.