Lot 134
134
A needlework book cover, worked in tent and Gobelin stitches, to the left with a lady embellished with a seed pearl bracelet and necklace holding a purse and tulip against a silver thread ground and within a cartouche decorated with flowers and fruits, including a pomegranate, to the right with a nobleman holding a book within a similar cartouche, the spine worked with an iris, peas, a carnation, a cornflower and a daffodil--9 1/8 x 13in. (23.25 x 33cm.), English, mid 17th century, framed and glazed
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A needlework book cover, worked in tent and Gobelin stitches, to the left with a lady embellished with a seed pearl bracelet and necklace holding a purse and tulip against a silver thread ground and within a cartouche decorated with flowers and fruits, including a pomegranate, to the right with a nobleman holding a book within a similar cartouche, the spine worked with an iris, peas, a carnation, a cornflower and a daffodil--9 1/8 x 13in. (23.25 x 33cm.), English, mid 17th century, framed and glazed

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A needlework book cover, worked in tent and Gobelin stitches, to the left with a lady embellished with a seed pearl bracelet and necklace holding a purse and tulip against a silver thread ground and within a cartouche decorated with flowers and fruits, including a pomegranate, to the right with a nobleman holding a book within a similar cartouche, the spine worked with an iris, peas, a carnation, a cornflower and a daffodil--9 1/8 x 13in. (23.25 x 33cm.), English, mid 17th century, framed and glazed
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