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17TH CENTURY
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A FRANCO-SCOTTISH SILK AND WOOL-EMBROIDERED VALENCE
17th Century
Probably from a bed hanging, worked in colored wools and silks highlights with The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19: 1-28) in the center, Lot's family is depicted in flight, carrying their belongings, led by an Angel, Lot's wife glancing backwards and transforming into a pillar of salt, in the background the cities are in flame, the ground worked with trees, ducks, a dog, a bird and a squirrel, a snail with strawberries, tulips and other flowers to the foreground, the right hand section with a man crossing a river on the back of a donkey under a fruit tree in a landscape, framed
15 x 52in. (37.5 x 130cm.), the panel
17th Century
Probably from a bed hanging, worked in colored wools and silks highlights with The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19: 1-28) in the center, Lot's family is depicted in flight, carrying their belongings, led by an Angel, Lot's wife glancing backwards and transforming into a pillar of salt, in the background the cities are in flame, the ground worked with trees, ducks, a dog, a bird and a squirrel, a snail with strawberries, tulips and other flowers to the foreground, the right hand section with a man crossing a river on the back of a donkey under a fruit tree in a landscape, framed
15 x 52in. (37.5 x 130cm.), the panel