An embroidered and appliqué hanging of crimson velvet, applied with silks shot with metal thread and embroidered in floss silks and couched gilt thread with three columns of scrolling vines issuing from a large flowerhead on a foliate base and bearing large-scale acanthus leaves and blue bell-shaped flowers, centred with baskets of fruit, with pairs of doves and parrots above and below, the borders worked with a meandering vine bearing tulip-like flowers, trimmed with metal fringes and silk tassels--97 x 65½in. (246.5 x 166cm.), Italian, early 17th century, wear, losses to embroidery