A cope of sage green silk woven with large scale floral arrangements, the ground with a feather lattice, brocaded with apricot and pink silks, second quarter of 18th century, probably French, fragmentary; a joined panel of dark brown velvet voided and cut to reveal a repeat of a stylised pommegranate design within a medallion with a bronze ground, 19th century; and seven ivory silk panels, 20th century

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A cope of sage green silk woven with large scale floral arrangements, the ground with a feather lattice, brocaded with apricot and pink silks, second quarter of 18th century, probably French, fragmentary; a joined panel of dark brown velvet voided and cut to reveal a repeat of a stylised pommegranate design within a medallion with a bronze ground, 19th century; and seven ivory silk panels, 20th century

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