English beaded wire basket with a male and female figure

An image of Textiles. Basket. Sides of glass beads threaded and interwoven on wire, base of satin embroidered with couched beads. Male and female figure in the centre of base, surrounded by unicorn, stag, lion and leopard with birds, butterflies, flowers, sprigs, etc. Length, whole, 14.25 in, circa 1625-circa 1674. English.

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Textiles. Basket. Sides of glass beads threaded and interwoven on wire, base of satin embroidered with couched beads. Male and female figure in the centre of base, surrounded by unicorn, stag, lion and leopard with birds, butterflies, flowers, sprigs, etc. Length, whole, 14.25 in, circa 1625-circa 1674. English.

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Accession Number: T.10-1945
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 374.86kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 39/1

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