Lot 29
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A pair of horizontal borders, the gold silk ground appliqued with blue, green, red and ivory silk with floral and fruiting urns in a Florentine foliate design, the outlines with metal thread, highlighted with embroidered details in coloured silks, one with a standing couple in a domestic interior within an oviate cartouche, flanked by cherubic figures of musicians: a drummer and a viola player; and the other with a courting couple seated on a columnar balcony, surrounded by a flowering creeper, with a viola player and a bag piper; both with added crimson silk and gold thread fringe--77 x 11in. (192 x 28cm.), 16th century, Italian, probably Florentine, some wear and damage, backed
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A pair of horizontal borders, the gold silk ground appliqued with blue, green, red and ivory silk with floral and fruiting urns in a Florentine foliate design, the outlines with metal thread, highlighted with embroidered details in coloured silks, one with a standing couple in a domestic interior within an oviate cartouche, flanked by cherubic figures of musicians: a drummer and a viola player; and the other with a courting couple seated on a columnar balcony, surrounded by a flowering creeper, with a viola player and a bag piper; both with added crimson silk and gold thread fringe--77 x 11in. (192 x 28cm.), 16th century, Italian, probably Florentine, some wear and damage, backed

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A pair of horizontal borders, the gold silk ground appliqued with blue, green, red and ivory silk with floral and fruiting urns in a Florentine foliate design, the outlines with metal thread, highlighted with embroidered details in coloured silks, one with a standing couple in a domestic interior within an oviate cartouche, flanked by cherubic figures of musicians: a drummer and a viola player; and the other with a courting couple seated on a columnar balcony, surrounded by a flowering creeper, with a viola player and a bag piper; both with added crimson silk and gold thread fringe--77 x 11in. (192 x 28cm.), 16th century, Italian, probably Florentine, some wear and damage, backed
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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