A panel of embroidery worked in brightly coloured floss silks with darker silk outlines, on ivory moiré grosgrain ground, with a pair of cockatoos picking at a basket of fruit, within a border of scrolling acanthus leaves--56in x 49in.; and seven other panels and fragments of similar embroidery, some couched, on linen, satin and grosgrain grounds, all 1890s

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A panel of embroidery worked in brightly coloured floss silks with darker silk outlines, on ivory moiré grosgrain ground, with a pair of cockatoos picking at a basket of fruit, within a border of scrolling acanthus leaves--56in x 49in.; and seven other panels and fragments of similar embroidery, some couched, on linen, satin and grosgrain grounds, all 1890s
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