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SUMMARY:embroidery-sample-for-the-coronation-dress-of-queen-elizabeth-ii - 
 Date de vente : 12/11/2025
DESCRIPTION:Nom du lots : Embroidery Sample for the Coronation Dress of Que
 en Elizabeth II\n\nThe cream-coloured satin sample embroidered with a bouq
 uet of flowers representing the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Nation
 s accompanied by Queen Elizabeth II’s cypher\, applied with glass beads\
 , seed pearls and strass\, with gold and silver thread details\, framed\, 
 sample measuring approximately 230 x 230mm\; circa 1952.\n\nThe coronation
  dress of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nThis is one of several recorded embroidery
  samples pertaining to the development of the dress Norman Hartnell create
 d for Elizabeth II to be worn at her coronation in Westminster Abbey on Ju
 ne second 1953. In October 1952\, Hartnell began conceiving the gown\, a p
 rocess which lasted eight months. He worked together with six embroiderers
  of the Royal School of Needlework and submitted eight different designs t
 o the Queen. The final dress featured the embroidered national flowers of 
 the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Nations\, strewn across the bodice
  and bell-shaped skirt in a variety of garland-like patterns. The coronati
 on dress took nine weeks and approximately three-thousand working hours to
  complete.\n\nThe embroidery on the present lot closely resembles the moti
 fs on the final design. These include the English Tudor rose\, the Scottis
 h thistle\, the Welsh leek and the Irish shamrock for the United Kingdom\,
  while the Commonwealth Nations are represented by the Canadian maple leaf
 \, the Indian lotus flower\, the Pakistani wheat\, cotton and jute\, the A
 ustralian wattle flower\, the New Zealand silver fern and the South Africa
 n protea.\n\nSome of the samples created in preparation of the coronation 
 dress were gifted by Hartnell to the embroiderers who worked on them. High
 ly similar examples are part of the collections of the Saffron Waldon Muse
 um and the National Gallery of Australia. These samples are a touching mem
 ento of the joyful start of Queen Elizabeth’s II reign\, which commenced
  when Great Britain was emerging from the hardships of post-war rationing 
 and lasted for seventy years\, providing an anchor-point through ever-chan
 ging times for generations of people across the globe.
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