19th Century Napoleonic Empire Cushion Silk and Gold Thread Embroidery French Bobbin Lace Throw Pillow

Description

Napoleonic Empire cushion silk, bobbin lace and metallic gold thread embroidered
Cushion with a rich and luxurious appaerance.
Made of … more Napoleonic Empire cushion silk, bobbin lace and metallic gold thread embroidered
Cushion with a rich and luxurious appaerance.
Made of genuine silk satin and 19th century embroidered with gold metal thread and a layer
of silk lace
The fine gold metal thread gives and the very delicate silk lace makes it very special.
The cream lace work combines very well with the green silk and gold metallic.
In the center of the cushion a gold metal thread and green silk embroidered lozenge.
On both sides borderen with lace work fully hand made of cannetille gold metal thread.
The cushion is fully trimmed with dark green silk thread loops
Origin: France 19th century
Condition: a piece unique fully handcrafted some loose silk threads not disturbing
And as might expected some stains

Width 29.5 in - 75cm
Height 15.7 in - 40cm
Depth 3.9 in - 10cm

Empire is an early 19th century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts and visual arts.
It represents the 2nd phase of neoclassicism.
Popular between 1800 and 1815, the period of the Consulate and the First French Empire, although it lasted until the late 1820s.
The Empire style originated in France from which it spread to Europe and the United States.

The Empire style derives its name from the reign of Emperor Napoleon I in the First French Empire,
when it was intended to idealize Napoleon's leadership and the French state.
The previous fashionable style in France was the Directoire style, which replaced the neoclassicism of the Louis XVI style with more restrained and minimalist forms. The new Empire style brought a full return to ostentatious wealth. less