A cushion, 'Red Lion' (Rött Lejon), tapestry weave, c. 104 x 47 cm, Southwestern Scania, first part of the 19th century.
Skytts or Bara district, Sweden. A dark brown ground with polychrome pattern of lions in wreaths and large stylised flowers.
Provenance
From a Northern European collection
Literature
Compare Willborg, Peter "Flatweaves from Fjord and Forest; Scandinavian Tapestries of the 18th and 19th Centuries", London 1984, colour plate 17.
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