My own Treasure Hunt

The National Trust, (England's premier heritage charity) "protects and opens to the public over 350 historic houses, gardens and ancient monuments...they also look after forests, woods, fens, beaches, farmland, downs, moorland, islands, archaeological remains, castles, nature reserves, villages...etc"

Little Augury introduced me to the excellent blog written by Emile de Bruijn, and I have recently been in touch with him on a number of subjects. He mentioned that he had seen the Chinoiserie wallpaper fragment I have framed in my dining room, (above), and the similarity between it and that in the bedroom of Belton House, in Lincolnshire. His post Visions of the east shows that wallpaper, and detail from it. There do appear to be similarities, in some parts.

Now I need to conduct a treasure hunt of my own, to establish provenance and context.