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<p>[QUOTE="KRA, post: 2449316, member: 15850"]We are pretty sure that we figured that one out. It is a tapestry of a painting called The Harbor by Francesco Guardi. It's apparently an 18th Century Venice harbor scene. It's a very big piece, but as with many of these things, it wasn't in good shape. It was too big for the frame so the right hand side of the tapestry, where in the original you can see a building with arched openings, was cut off. We planned to take it with us, but it was so big that we decided it would be best to take it out of the frame and roll it up. Once we had it out we could see that the right side was poorly cut off. If I have the story right, my Uncle picked it up in Italy, probably in the 1950's for $50.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KRA, post: 2449316, member: 15850"]We are pretty sure that we figured that one out. It is a tapestry of a painting called The Harbor by Francesco Guardi. It's apparently an 18th Century Venice harbor scene. It's a very big piece, but as with many of these things, it wasn't in good shape. It was too big for the frame so the right hand side of the tapestry, where in the original you can see a building with arched openings, was cut off. We planned to take it with us, but it was so big that we decided it would be best to take it out of the frame and roll it up. Once we had it out we could see that the right side was poorly cut off. If I have the story right, my Uncle picked it up in Italy, probably in the 1950's for $50.[/QUOTE]
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