Lot 148
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An embroidered picture, worked in coloured silks and couched with metal thread, depicting a minstrel with bagpipes and a young boy with a pipe and drum above a verse De tous les malheureux mon estat (sic) est le pire... and dated 1666, within a border of flowers, grapes and birds--16½ x 13¾in. (42 x 35cm.), French, framed
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An embroidered picture, worked in coloured silks and couched with metal thread, depicting a minstrel with bagpipes and a young boy with a pipe and drum above a verse De tous les malheureux mon estat (sic) est le pire... and dated 1666, within a border of flowers, grapes and birds--16½ x 13¾in. (42 x 35cm.), French, framed

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An embroidered picture, worked in coloured silks and couched with metal thread, depicting a minstrel with bagpipes and a young boy with a pipe and drum above a verse De tous les malheureux mon estat (sic) est le pire... and dated 1666, within a border of flowers, grapes and birds--16½ x 13¾in. (42 x 35cm.), French, framed
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Lot Essay

The reverse with notes dated 1926 suggesting the picture was bought at 'Angers villa' in 1861.

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