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A reproduction gilt composition framed wall mirror, a set of iron and brass grocer's scales with weights, a leather suitcase, four wooden candlesticks, a pair of hand screens, a Decca "Junior" gramophone, a framed embroidery, a framed machine woven tapestry picture,and an unframed tapestry.(13)
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Property from Warwick Castle Warwickshire A James I carved oak tester bed including later elements with panelled tester the dentilled cornice with strapwork frieze the headboard carved with masks and dragons above a pair of arched floral vase panels flanked by herms and chevron banding the twin carved and turned posts with Doric capitals and square plinths together with two side rails at the base the pelmet with two tapestry hangings h.196cm. w.153cm. length 204cm. Provenance John Crichton-Stuart 6th Marquess of Bute until sold Sotheby's London Property from the Collections of the Marquess of Bute 29th May 1981 as lot 168 then in the bed chamber Guy's Tower Warwick Castle Warwickshire. W
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A French Exotic Chinoiserie Verdure Tapestry Aubusson first half 18th century and later woven with large trees and exuberant foreground flowering plants with a central wading bird with a distant town beyond in an associated frame pattern border with large scrolling foliate motifs in each corner with narrow banded inner borders and later selvedge h.175cm. w.210cm. W
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A mille fleurs pastoral tapestry 20th century in 16th century style woven with a central rectangular plinth surrounded well and small lower pond with two ducks with four female figures one of which is seated at the well and playing a lute and two male figures in 16th century dress with a ground of two flanking trees with a perching bird and small flowers on a dark brown/black ground in the mille fleurs style with a later banded brown and yellow outer selvedge h. 218cm. w. 269cm. W
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A Flemish Four-Sided Tapestry Border probably Bruges late 16th century and later woven with foliate scrollwork with intermittent seated winged cherubs across the top border and two couples of embracing cherubs across the bottom the side borders with elegant female figures standing on metal scrollwork held sculptural plinths and underneath scallop edged canopies held by ribbon tied bows with drapery swags above enclosing scrollwork cabochon with later woven initials `P' and `G' with lion masks above at the base of a tapering vase filled with fruit all on a distinctive pale blue ground with a narrow cream outer border and blue selvedge the bottom corner of the right hand side border bearing an associated weaver's mark attributed to Willem de Pannemaker h.282cm.. w.218cm. Literature The inclusion as a surround of strapwork (`scroll-workÕ) is a distinct feature of Antwerp design in around 1545 introduced by Cornelis Floris and published in Antwerp in 1556 in his compendium Veelderleij Veranderinghe van Grotissen ende Compertimenten (Multiple variations of grotesques and compartments). It became a recurring motif in Flemish tapestries both in the picture plane and in the border. See Guy Delmarcel Flemish Tapestries London 1999 pp.110-111 for a tapestry depicting Envy from the series of The Seven Deadly Sins woven in Brussels after cartoons by Pieter Coecke circa 1555 from the workshop of Willem de Pannemaker and bearing the weaverÕs monogram in the bottom corner of the right hand side border. This border has similar motifs of the ribbon interlaced through the side borders the same pale blue ground the inclusion of cherubs and strapwork clad containers and use of fruit and foliage. W
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