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English beaded wire basket with a male and female figure

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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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rgb(114,102,73), rgb(66,72,60), rgb(211,211,210), rgb(120,132,117), rgb(165,154,126), rgb(158,162,156), rgb(99,99,100), rgb(180,174,157), rgb(149,147,148), rgb(172,171,172), rgb(69,153,171)

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