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FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
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A FRANCO-FLEMISH ALLEGORICAL NEEDLEWORK WALL-HANGING
FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
worked in wool with gros-point tent-stitch, depicting two embraced female figures, possibly representative of Peace and Justice, flanked by two putti holding aloft sceptres, within a landscape with a fruiting tree and wild animals, in the background villages and a town, within fruiting foliate borders flowerheads
57 x 91in. (145 x 231 cm.)
FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
worked in wool with gros-point tent-stitch, depicting two embraced female figures, possibly representative of Peace and Justice, flanked by two putti holding aloft sceptres, within a landscape with a fruiting tree and wild animals, in the background villages and a town, within fruiting foliate borders flowerheads
57 x 91in. (145 x 231 cm.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1987, lot 177
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