A naive painted linen panel with a pair of ladies beside a flowering and fruiting tree, flanked by four children, in 17th century style dress, against a tobacco coloured ground--22 x 28in. (55 x 68cm.), framed and glazed, probably 1920s in Continental/Dutch 17th century style

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A naive painted linen panel with a pair of ladies beside a flowering and fruiting tree, flanked by four children, in 17th century style dress, against a tobacco coloured ground--22 x 28in. (55 x 68cm.), framed and glazed, probably 1920s in Continental/Dutch 17th century style

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For a similar Dutch embroidered panel from the mid 17th century in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection from which the design may have been taken see plate 59, "A Book of Old Embroidery", Louisa Pesel and E. Newberry, London, 1921

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