Sale 9878
London, South Kensington
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6 July 2004
Price realised
GBP 84
Estimate
A composite panel of white-ground chintz, printed in red and madder with elegant figures in oriental costume and peacocks atop exotic flowers--51 x 39in. (127 x 97cm.), late 17th century, North West Europe
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To compare style and motifs to English tapestries of the 1690s, see The Metropolitan Museum Journal No. 15, 1981: "English Tapestries After The Indian Manner," Edith A. Standen
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