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AN ITALIAN BAROQUE SILK EMBROIDERED WALL CARPET
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Centrally woven with a cartouche surmounted by a crown and enclosing a scene of Noah and the Ark, with elaborate foliate arabesques issuing from a scallop shell on a purple ground, within a border of arabesques and flowerheads on a yellow ground, losses to silk, spots
19ft. 11in. x 17ft. 1in. (5m. 82cm. x 5m. 20cm.)
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Centrally woven with a cartouche surmounted by a crown and enclosing a scene of Noah and the Ark, with elaborate foliate arabesques issuing from a scallop shell on a purple ground, within a border of arabesques and flowerheads on a yellow ground, losses to silk, spots
19ft. 11in. x 17ft. 1in. (5m. 82cm. x 5m. 20cm.)