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EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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A LILLE VERDURE TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
Early 18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a profusion of foliage and flowers to the foreground, to the right with a thistle and to the left with a red flowering shrub and a tree in the background with white flowerheads, within a later cream and blue outer slip, minor reweaving and patching, some heightening of colour tones
6 ft. 9 in. x 2 ft. 7 in. (206 cm. x 80 cm.)
Early 18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a profusion of foliage and flowers to the foreground, to the right with a thistle and to the left with a red flowering shrub and a tree in the background with white flowerheads, within a later cream and blue outer slip, minor reweaving and patching, some heightening of colour tones
6 ft. 9 in. x 2 ft. 7 in. (206 cm. x 80 cm.)