A PAIR OF PAINTED VELVET BELL PULLS
FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY
Each with a gilt-metal mount to the lower edge, with paper label ‘This was left to me in his will by the late John Fowler, C.B.E.’
180cm long

Together with another pair of wool embroidered bell pulls, late 19th century, with detached gilt metal attachments, 352 and 272cm long respectively (4)

Provenance:
The first pair a gift from John Fowler, The Hunting Lodge, Hampshire

Photographed in ‘John Fowler, Prince of Decorators’, Martin Wood, Frances Lincoln, 2007, page 94 and in ‘Colefax & Fowler’, Chester Jones, Barrie and Jenkins Ltd, 1989, page 62.
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