Duncan Grant Firescreen
embroidered by Ottoline Morrell
(circa 1912)
collection of Bryan Ferry
A sewing box holds Ottoline's silks and cotton reels, arranged in graded rows, some of the chair covers in this room were worked by her from Duncan Grant's designs. Rolled up behind a sofa ready for the evening's work is the magnificent flowered bedspread which Ottoline began embroidering in 1916, a brilliant jungle of silk leaves and blossom which took ten years to complete.
-from OTTOLINE MORRELL Life on the Grand Scale, by Miranda Seymour
image from Venetian Red blog Here
-from OTTOLINE MORRELL Life on the Grand Scale, by Miranda Seymour
image from Venetian Red blog Here
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