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.
