Petticoat panel with chinoiserie motifs (one of two)

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By the late seventeenth century the appeal of Far Eastern goods had reached most levels of English society. Those who could not afford luxurious imports could turn to domestically produced options. In 1688 A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing by John Stalker and George Parker was published in London. The popular how-to guide includes twenty-four chinoiserie illustrations for decorating a variety of objects with an Asian flair. This embroidered panel is one of several English examples from the period stitched with such designs. Included are well-known motifs such as a fan-toting woman shaded by an attendant\u2019s parasol and tiny pavilions dwarfed by oversized foliage. Despite the typical lack of cultural and geographic specificity, Europeans would have understood the images to symbolize the Far East.e

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