[Steppes] FW: Neville Collection auction with embroideries

[Chiara Francesca]

There are some absolutely divine woodwork, boxes, coins, embroidered items as well as other carved items. This is a magnificent collection!

Enjoy!

♫
Chiara Francesca
"Which 'Chiara'...?? Nah... wasn't me ;-)"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Laning
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 5:33 PM
> Subject: Neville Collection auction with embroideries
> 
> Bonham's auction house is holding a big auction on December 9th of
> "The Howard Neville Collection of Early Works of Art and Textiles
> together with selected other properties." It's largely a collection of
> religious art ranging from the 15th to 19th centuries, and there are
> some utterly gorgeous embroideries in it, including an elaborate 17th
> century embroidered English coif (Lot 86) and a bunch of orphreys,
> bits of 15th century embroidered linen and silk et cetera. (I have no
> idea which Howard Neville this is; the catalog probably says.)
> 
> Also plenty of non-textiles, such as a 16th century Spanish iron
> strongbox, 16th century painted pottery whose technical
> classifications I don't understand (I'd say Majolica but I know that's
> wrong), lots of wood and ivory carvings and other goodies ;) There is,
> as one would expect, less stuff from the earlier centuries; on a fast
> pass through, most appears to be 17th and 18th.
> 
> http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-
> bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=catalogue&iSale
> No=17771
> 
> This link will shortly appear on every local needleworkers' mailing
> list, I'm sure ;)
> 
> The photos are excellent, especially if you go to the Flash version
> and hit zoom. You can see details really well -- every embroidered
> piece I tried, I could literally count the threads and get an
> excellent look at the techniques. If you have screen-capture
> technology you could probably piece  together a fairly good overall
> image from those enlarged bits, though that's always a bit tedious.
> 
> There are links to purchase a catalog as well, though I have no idea
> how many pieces appear as photos in it, if any.
> 
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