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A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 1
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 2
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 3
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 4
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 5
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 6
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 7
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 8
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 9
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 10
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 11
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 12
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 13
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 14
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 15
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 16
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 17
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 18
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 19
A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately image 20
Lot 67TP

A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels
Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh 71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately

Fine Decorative Arts
3 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£7,000 - £10,000

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A collection of unusual Kashmiri wall panels

Probably 19th century, probably composition plaster gesso and canvas mesh
Designed with sinuous stems, bold palmettes and stylised floral motifs of varying arrangements, some issuing from shallow urns, nine on a charcoal ground and the remaining ten on ivory ground, some with undulations to the central fields, all in later gilt wood frames,
71cm x 48cm including the frames overall approximately (19)

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Provenance
By repute, gifted to Frederick Wallingford Whitridge FWW by King Alfonso of Spain upon his marriage to Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Victoria Eugenie.
Housed in the entrance hall of Barley End.
Lt. Col. Norman Thwaites by marriage to Eleanor Whitridge.
Acquired by the present vendor upon the purchase of Barley End.

Whitridge was the special envoy of President Theodore Roosevelt and was a guest at the historic wedding in Madrid between King Alfonso of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. It is possible that official guests received these panels as gifts. Whitridge was a close friend of President Roosevelt's -a number of letters exchanged between the two men can be found in the Presidential Archives.

Whitridge was an important business figure - owning the Third Avenue Railway company in New York City. He married the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold the famous headmaster of Rugby School. He commissioned and built Barley End in the late 1800s as his UK base but lived in the USA most of the time. The panels were placed into the entrance hall of Barley End. Whitridge's daughter married Colonel Thwaites and they lived at Barley End from 1921 onwards. Thwaites was an intelligence officer for the British Government in New York and a decorated war hero.

For a similarly patterned example, see Bonhams sold Islamic and Indian Art, London, 2 October 2012, Lot 26.

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