Sale 6072
London
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12 February 1999
Price realised
GBP 4,600
Estimate
A LOUIS XVI PORTRAIT TAPESTRY PANEL Woven in wools and silks, depicting to the centre a seated maiden within a strapwork border with rich foliate scrolls and flowers, within a later blue outer slip, probably reduced in size and now mounted on a board, minor reweaving 36 in. x 27 in. (93 cm. x 69 cm.)
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A larger Beauvais tapestry of similar character was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 6 July 1978, lot 133.
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