Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Hatfield House Coverlet: Birds, Animals and Foliage
Birds and small animals inhabit an intricate field of curling foliage. A broad circular arrangement interrupts the repeated stems and leaves at one side. The source caption identifies an Indo-Chinese coverlet at Hatfield House, said to have belonged to Oliver Cromwell. That ownership is presented as a historical attribution. The reproduction gives the dense inhabited ornament a scale suitable for close comparison.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Hatfield House Coverlet: Birds, Animals and Foliage" [editorial title]. In Needlework as Art, Lady M. Alford. First edition, 1886, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. Source scan leaf 208. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0111-0207
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Illustrator not identified. The Hatfield House Coverlet: Birds, Animals and Foliage. Needlework as Art. Scan leaf 208. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0111-0207