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Lot 20
A shield-shaped purse of cloth of silver
possibly German, early 18th Century
2 March 2011, 14:00 GMT
New Bond Street

Sold for £840 inc. premium

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A shield-shaped purse of cloth of silver

possibly German, early 18th Century
Finely embroidered with a lady and gentleman in Turkish costume seated before a palace, the verso with card-players, after Teniers, the edge with gold turned work, having sprung steel clasp
9 x 8cm (3 1/4 x 3 1/2in).

Footnotes

Exhibited: Royal School of Needlework Loan Exhibition at St.James's Palace April 12 - May 1951, ca. no.88.

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