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Part of one of the famous David and Bathsheba series at the Cluny Museum. Woven on a high warp loom in 
Handers in the reign of Louis XII. at the end of the fifteenth century. A magnificent series of ten, enriched 
with gold and silver, that belonged successively to the Duke of York, the Marchese di Spinola and the Serra 
family of Genoa. 
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