A Mid-17thC Flemish Gilt Framed Embossed & Gilded Leather Wallpaper Fragment sub-Religion & Relics terminating in an integral hanging

terminating in an integral hanging loop and surviving in scintillatingly original condition from high Victorian England

in Istanbul in the early twentieth century

painted in slender lines denoting their speed and grace

to the lower section

we see only very minor feather loss to the plumage

A Mid-17thC Flemish Gilt Framed Embossed & Gilded Leather Wallpaper Fragment sub-Religion & Relics terminating in an integral hangingOrigin: FlemishPeriod: Renaissance Baroque Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1650 70Height: 34Width: 27Depth: 2 (all in frame)The gloriously painted, embossed and gilded leather wallpaper fragment, with fruit and flowers issuing from the centre in ruby red and peacock blue with white highlights to a gilt ground and presented in a later gilt frame and surviving from the middle of seventeenth century Netherlands. The panel has been well preserved in its frame