Sale 9733
London, South Kensington
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11 November 2003
Price realised
GBP 881
Estimate
A fine purse, tent stitched in coloured silks with a naked man on a rock, possibly Prometheus, and with an angel sitting astride a mythical beast, with tasselled drawstring fastening, circa 1700
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