A pair of needlework panels, embroidered in coloured silks, one with a pair of snails beneath a pear tree, the other with birds in an apple tree, both within borders composed of trailing branches bearing fruit and flowers--22in x 21in., mounted, circa 1600

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A pair of needlework panels, embroidered in coloured silks, one with a pair of snails beneath a pear tree, the other with birds in an apple tree, both within borders composed of trailing branches bearing fruit and flowers--22in x 21in., mounted, circa 1600

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See lot 53, Christie's Sale of An Important Collection of Needlework, 23 June 1987, for a similar panel.

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