A pair of ciselé velvet panels woven in shades of pink, brown and blue with lilies, roses and other flowers and vases among scrolling leaves and cornucopiae filled with fruit, with lateral borders, voided to an ochre ground figured with a tiny checked pattern --41 x 78in. (102 x 195cm), another long length, without the borders--22in. wide (55cm), and three lengths of lateral borders, French, Lyons, 1876

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A pair of ciselé velvet panels woven in shades of pink, brown and blue with lilies, roses and other flowers and vases among scrolling leaves and cornucopiae filled with fruit, with lateral borders, voided to an ochre ground figured with a tiny checked pattern --41 x 78in. (102 x 195cm), another long length, without the borders--22in. wide (55cm), and three lengths of lateral borders, French, Lyons, 1876

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Designed and made for Prelle for Gillow & Co. (later known as Waring & Gillow)

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