A single tieback cord with a tassel at each end, knotted at the centre and finished in flecked chenille, bullion and cut silk. The cord runs about seventy inches .
Each tassel is built on a turned wooden mould sheathed in straw-gold silk, with twisted cords laid vertically down the mould and a band of black and gold chevron galloon at the crown. Below that sits a collerette of flecked chenille, then a skirt of mixed elements: caterpillar bobbles, twisted bullion in old rose and olive, and cut silk tufts.
Sourced from a château in France and presumably from the old of the 19th Century .
CONDITION
The chenille is matted and crushed in places, worst on the collars, and the skirts have lost their order: strands cross, and several lengths of bullion have worked loose from the ranks. Colour has gone down to a uniform tea-gold, with the old rose and olive surviving mainly where the skirt shaded them. The cord is sound along its length and both moulds are firm.
DETAILS
Form — tieback cord, two tassels
Tassel — 10 in / 25.5 cm overall
Skirt — 5 in / 12.5 cm
Cord — approx. 70 in / 178 cm
Materials — Wood , Cotton , silk and chenille by appearance
Colours — straw gold, old rose, olive, black
Provenance — a château in France
Date — last quarter of the 19th century .
A single tieback cord with a tassel at each end, knotted at the centre and finished in flecked chenille, bullion and cut silk. The cord runs about seventy inches .
Each tassel is built on a turned wooden mould sheathed in straw-gold silk, with twisted cords laid vertically down the mould and a band of black and gold chevron galloon at the crown. Below that sits a collerette of flecked chenille, then a skirt of mixed elements: caterpillar bobbles, twisted bullion in old rose and olive, and cut silk tufts.
Sourced from a château in France and presumably from the old of the 19th Century .
CONDITION
The chenille is matted and crushed in places, worst on the collars, and the skirts have lost their order: strands cross, and several lengths of bullion have worked loose from the ranks. Colour has gone down to a uniform tea-gold, with the old rose and olive surviving mainly where the skirt shaded them. The cord is sound along its length and both moulds are firm.
DETAILS
Form — tieback cord, two tassels
Tassel — 10 in / 25.5 cm overall
Skirt — 5 in / 12.5 cm
Cord — approx. 70 in / 178 cm
Materials — Wood , Cotton , silk and chenille by appearance
Colours — straw gold, old rose, olive, black
Provenance — a château in France
Date — last quarter of the 19th century .
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