Lot 304
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A large hanging of black facecloth, finely inlaid with polychrome flowers and embroidered in coloured silks, the central panel finely worked with a scene at the House of Commons with Disraeli, Gladstone, and other Victorian statesmen, the panels with bright orange and yellow strip dividers--74 x 82in. (185 x 130cm.), second half of the 19th century, English; and another, similar, the central panel with a large gathering of military and naval personalities and Victorian statesmen in a colonnaded interior beneath a portrait of Queen Victoria, as aboveSee illustration of the first panel (2)
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A large hanging of black facecloth, finely inlaid with polychrome flowers and embroidered in coloured silks, the central panel finely worked with a scene at the House of Commons with Disraeli, Gladstone, and other Victorian statesmen, the panels with bright orange and yellow strip dividers--74 x 82in. (185 x 130cm.), second half of the 19th century, English; and another, similar, the central panel with a large gathering of military and naval personalities and Victorian statesmen in a colonnaded interior beneath a portrait of Queen Victoria, as aboveSee illustration of the first panel (2)

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A large hanging of black facecloth, finely inlaid with polychrome flowers and embroidered in coloured silks, the central panel finely worked with a scene at the House of Commons with Disraeli, Gladstone, and other Victorian statesmen, the panels with bright orange and yellow strip dividers--74 x 82in. (185 x 130cm.), second half of the 19th century, English; and another, similar, the central panel with a large gathering of military and naval personalities and Victorian statesmen in a colonnaded interior beneath a portrait of Queen Victoria, as aboveSee illustration of the first panel (2)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
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Please note the estimate for this lot should read 1200-1500 GBP.

Lot Essay

The first panel, seemingly commemorating a UK-France Treaty and its subsequent passage through the House of Commons, presumably the agreement on the Suez Canal, bears the date 1872. However, the agreement between Queen Victoria and Napoleon III could not post-date 1871, the year the Emperor was defeated at Sedan and overthrown.

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