A fine horizontal embroidered panel, worked in silks in tent stitch with formal ancanthus scrolls bearing various flowers including carnations and roses, with birds and insects between, the outlines hightlighted in couched gilt thread, against a ground entirely worked in ivory silk, Italian, 18th century--8¼ x 21½in. (21 x 182cm)
A fine horizontal embroidered panel, worked in silks in tent stitch with formal ancanthus scrolls bearing various flowers including carnations and roses, with birds and insects between, the outlines hightlighted in couched gilt thread, against a ground entirely worked in ivory silk, Italian, 18th century--8¼ x 21½in. (21 x 182cm)

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A fine horizontal embroidered panel, worked in silks in tent stitch with formal ancanthus scrolls bearing various flowers including carnations and roses, with birds and insects between, the outlines hightlighted in couched gilt thread, against a ground entirely worked in ivory silk, Italian, 18th century--8¼ x 21½in. (21 x 182cm)
See Illustration p.76

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