Given by Louis C G Clarke, of Berkeley House, Hay Hill, London. According to the acquisition papers the donor said it had been stripped off a screen.
This was presumably Louis Colville Gray Clarke (1881-1960), art conoisseur and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from 1937 to 1946. He travelled extensively, and made particularly connections in Hungary, renewing "in the 1920s friendships made in his youth with members of the senior Austro-Hungarian families, when he took part in digs at Toszey and elsewhere in Hungary". (ODNB) He may have acquired the textile on his travels in East Europe.
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Given by Louis C G Clarke, of Berkeley House, Hay Hill, London. According to the acquisition papers the donor said it had been stripped off a screen.
This was presumably Louis Colville Gray Clarke (1881-1960), art conoisseur and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from 1937 to 1946. He travelled extensively, and made particularly connections in Hungary, renewing "in the 1920s friendships made in his youth with members of the senior Austro-Hungarian families, when he took part in digs at Toszey and elsewhere in Hungary". (ODNB) He may have acquired the textile on his travels in East Europe.