Eight Kunstbillets 1800 - 1900

"Eight Kunstbillets" is a collection of eight framed, embroidered, and embellished "Kunstbillets" or "Art Tickets" that were created sometime between 1800 and 1900. This anonymous collection of art, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, consists of a central piece with a scene of a royal couple and a surrounding border of decorative and sentimental motifs like a scene of a bird with a butterfly, a flower arrangement, and a pair of arrows and ribbons. Each piece within the collection is carefully framed in gold. These "Kunstbillets" were popular in the 19th century as an expression of craftsmanship and artistic skill.