Sale 9733
London, South Kensington
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11 November 2003
Price realised
GBP 764
Estimate
A tent stitched picture, worked in coloured silks with a vase of flowers on a hillocky ground from which sprout flowers and grasses, with a butterfly and insects hovering around--15 x 13¼in. (38 x 33.5cm.), framed and glazed, circa 1730s, two small dark stains to right ground See Illustration
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