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Handkerchief

1676
Linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work; embroidered silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in cross, satin, buttonhole, overcast, detached overcast, and four-sided stitches; edged with applied silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk braid
43.5 × 44.4 cm (17.1 × 17.5 in)

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