Rare Block Print Panel Mezzaro Border : C 19th Genoa Italy decorative with an overall patina of

with an overall patina of age as you would aspect in an antique textile

Hand embroidered with floss silk roundels onto a cream silk satin ground and finished with a magenta silk satin border

In good strong useable condition

marks to silk and signs of wear as you’d expect in an antique item if costume if this antiquity

A fine Georgian stumpwork embroidery worked in very fine natural dyed wools

Rare Block Print Panel Mezzaro Border : C 19th Genoa Italy decorative with an overall patina ofProduced in Genoa Italy to meet the European demand for wall hangings in the style of earlier Tree of Life Palampores this is a fragment of a panel which was part of the border. Highly decorative it abounds with birds, nests, butterflies and a wonderful snail. Block printed and painted by hand it uses motifs and imagery influenced by 17th and 18th century Indian Palalmpore and Chintzes. This panel would benefit from being stretched and mounted, a