The David & Sarah Battie Collection, Asian Art, Antiques & Historic Textiles

* Bags and purses, early 19th-early 20th century, a collection, including: a beaded dark blue silk drawstring reticule with matching small purse a...

* Set of beaded trinket boxes, French, early 19th century, 4 small square card boxes, each with woven panels of seed beads to sides of base and pu...

* A pair of bed curtains, 18th century, 2 hand-sewn large green damask hangings, with repeated pattern of large stylised flowers and leaves, compo...

* Lace making bobbins, English, mid-19th century, approximately 360 hand-carved bone or wood bobbins, some stained green or red, some possibly Sou...

* Goldwork silk chasuble, late 18th/early 19th century, green silk, expertly hand-embroidered in gold metal thread using couching and basketweave,...

* Chinese painted silk panels from a court dress, circa 1750, 5 irregular pieces of brocaded cream silk, with woven pattern of 4 lines of dainty f...

* Chinese embroidered silk borders and motifs, late 19th/early 20th century, 14 hand-embroidered borders and motifs on 12 supports, worked in poly...

* Ladies' garments, early-mid 20th century, a collection, comprising: a 1930s black silk chiffon full-length sleeveless evening gown, with decorat...

* Ladies', children's and dolls' garments, 19th/early 20th century, a collection, comprising: a group of ladies' clothing, including: a close-gath...

* A prize-winning traditional shepherd's smock, circa 1960, expertly stitched cream cotton smock (shown at the National Federation of Women's Inst...

* A Regency black mourning gown, circa 1810, hand-stitched black silk muslin dress with woven vine leaf pattern, high-waisted, with long leg o' mu...

* A Tree of Life crewelwork panel, English, early-mid 17th century, hanging composed of needlework slips worked in polychrome wools and stitched t...

* Lithographs issued by the Working Men's Educational Union, 1850s, 3 colour lithographed educational banners, printed on cream cotton, each with ...

* Bawden (Edward, 1903-1989). Day and Night, screenprint on heavy cotton, triptych design of pointed ovals, with vase of flowers in the centre, fl...

* Kashmiri long embroidered coat, early 20th century, cream twilled house coat with stand-up collar and long sleeves, patterned overall with flowe...

* Embroidered bedcover, English, circa 1700, cream cotton and linen coverlet, stitched with all-over fish scale pattern in cream silk using tiny r...

* Embroidered panel from an ecclesiastical vestment, Italian, 18th century, large embroidery on 4 pieced portions of beige silk backed with linen,...

* Embroidered metalwork scroll case, Italy, early 17th century, red velvet-covered leather case consisting of an inner and outer tube, the outer p...

* Stomacher with metalwork and silk embroidery, English, circa 1700, cream linen stomacher, expertly embroidered with lavish fleuron design compos...

* Embroidered and beaded glove receptacle, French, late 18th/early 19th century, in bookcover form, composed of cream moiré silk, upper cover fine...

* A pair of unused petit point embroideries for a reticule, Victorian, 2 matching shaped embroideries for the front and back of a purse or bag, ha...

* Embroidered fragment relating to Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), late 18th-early 19th century, small piece of cream satin backed with cotton and ha...

* Fabric, 18th century, a collection, comprising: a hand-stitched silk brocade panel, possibly Spitalfields, circa 1750, curved at top edge and co...

* Printed cotton fabrics, mid-century, a collection, comprising: Heals "Treasure Chest", designed by Maggie Walker, red and brown colourways, unus...

* Wool brocaded fabric, circa 1750, hand-stitched pieced cream cotton and linen panel, irregularly shaped to right-hand side, with additional broc...

* A pair of embroidered face screen fans, early 19th century, 2 oval hand-held face screen fans, each hand-embroidered in chenille in greens, blue...

* Lace-trimmed and embroidered handkerchiefs, 19th century, 27 white or cream fine cotton handkerchiefs, comprising 22 trimmed with lace edging (m...

* A fine lace bedcover, probably Italian, circa 1730-1750, cream needle lace coverlet, finely hand-worked in the Point de Venise style, with centr...

* Honiton lace, 18th-early 20th century, comprising 7 lengths of mid 18th century white bobbin lace, some holes and breaks in lace, variously 3-5....

* Lace, 19th-mid 20th century, approximately 80 pieces, some hand-made, all white or cream, including lappets, collars, a stole, modesty panels, c...

* Lace, 17th-20th century, a collection of mostly cream and some black lace items, hand and machine-made, some with embroidery, including a finely...

* Lace, 19th-20th century, a collection of white, cream, ivory, and black lace items, machine and hand-made, some with embroidery, 1 or 2 monogram...

* Lace cap back, probably Mechlin, early 18th century, finely hand-worked ivory lace cap back, with pattern of flowers, leaves, and other motifs, ...

* Continental needlework genre picture, mid 19th century, petit point, finely-stitched in polychrome wools, depicting a woman seated in an interio...

* Ceremonial uniform belonging to Josslyn Seymour Egerton, worn as First Page of Honour to Queen Victoria, 1894-1901, comprising: a scarlet wool f...

* A pair of watercolour pinprick pictures of birds, early 19th century, 2 watercolours on paper with pinprick outlines, each of an exotic bird (pe...

* Broderie perse bedcover, circa 1830s, hand-stitched coverlet, with large central square panel from an 18th century palampore, depicting a flower...

* Patchwork quilt, early 19th century, printed cotton patchwork quilt, all over scattered wear, composed of squashed hexagons, within a border of ...

* Welsh quilts, circa 1910, four quilts, comprising a double-sided pink floral/peacock feather quilt, a sprigged purple quilt, a double-sided lila...

* Genealogical sampler by Jane Smith, 1820, stitched in silks on cream muslin, with a family tree and a devotional 4-line verse in black worked in...

* Lace-trimmed darning sampler, early 19th century, stitched in polychrome threads on a cream coarse linen ground with a central large rose stem w...

* A pair of Ackworth School samplers by sisters Mary and Ann Binyon, 1806 & 1817, 2 linen samplers worked in fine cross-stitch in black thread, th...

* Two Alton School darning samplers made by Maria Tothill and L. Saunders, circa 1790s and 1807, the first finely stitched on cream linen, with '...

* Sewing box, Thomas Lund, 57 Cornhill, London, circa 1815, red morocco-covered wooden box of sarcophagus shape, green paper-covered compartmental...

* Shawl, British or French, 1830s/40s, silk stole of pale and mid blue woven with metallised silver thread, with 5 large boteh at each short end, ...

* Egyptian Assuit stole, 1920s, cream net woven with hammered white metal pieces forming geometric alternating horizontal bands of chevrons, figur...

* Smart (George, 1774-1846). The Soldier and the Maid, circa 1817, moveable watercolour and collage picture on card, including cut fabric (mostly ...

* Smart (George, 1774-1846). The Earth Stopper, circa 1820s, watercolour and collage (including cut felt) on paper laid down on bevelled wood pane...

* Silk velvet tablecloth, probably late 19th/early 20th century, gold crushed silk velvet tablecloth for a circular occasional table, with close-g...

* Zamperoni (Luigi, 1820-1905). Two theatre costumes for a production of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 1884, 2 handmade heavy...

* Tobacco silks tablecloth, early 20th century, composed of 500+ cigarette silks, backed with cream linen (discoloured), all neatly stitched toget...

* Toile de Jouy large panel, Les Quatre Parties du Monde (The Four Continents) designed by Jean-Baptiste Huet, Jouy-en-Josas, France: Christophe-P...

* Trade samples, Tootal Fabrics, Manchester, 1979-1982, a pair of large ledgers containing approximately 3,000 printed fabric samples, mounted on ...

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of). Commemorative handkerchief, mid 19th century, fine silk, printed in black with a profile head and sh...

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of). The Funeral Procession of His Grace the Duke of Wellington, 1852, fine cotton, printed in sepia with...

* Caricature fan, no publisher, circa 1800, folding fan, etched on textured paper with a medley of caricatures and reversible heads, toned, pink p...

* Caricature fan, Bailes del Candil, Spain, circa 1830, hand-coloured folding paper fan, etched with a frieze of peasant figures, some dancing and...

* Caricature fan, The World Grown Odd & Crazy, London, Publish'd by Ashton & Co. No. 28, Little Britain, Aprl 12th. 1797, folding paper fan, etche...

* Conundrum fan, no publisher, circa 1790, hand-coloured etched folding paper fan, with central illustration of an arcaded classical building, sur...

* Conundrum fan, no publisher, circa 1791, hand-coloured double-sided fan, etched with various riddles and puzzles in English and French, accompan...