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A linen damask tablecloth

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A linen damask tablecloth
woven with a repeating design of S Pauls, Covent Garden showing the piazza and church portico with figures on horseback, on foot and horse and carriages, within lateral borders of scrolling stems--100 x 82in. (250 x 205cm.), late 17th century, possibly an altar cloth
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St. Paul's, Covent Garden, was consecrated in 1638. The column with a sun-dial on top was erected in 1669

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