A biblical tapestry panel, woven with the Annunciation, with the Virgin seated before an edifice with an open book in her lap, the Archangel Gabriel stands before her bearing a sceptre, framed within an ogival cartouche and surrounded by large-scale tulips, roses and trefoils, with an outer slip of crimson velvet, possibly Danish, late 17th/early 18th century--19¾in. (50cm) square, framed and glazed

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A biblical tapestry panel, woven with the Annunciation, with the Virgin seated before an edifice with an open book in her lap, the Archangel Gabriel stands before her bearing a sceptre, framed within an ogival cartouche and surrounded by large-scale tulips, roses and trefoils, with an outer slip of crimson velvet, possibly Danish, late 17th/early 18th century--19¾in. (50cm) square, framed and glazed
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See The Mayorcas Collection, Christie's London, 12 February 1999, lot 377 for a comparable tapestry panel

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