Velvet saddle cloth / caparison

A saddle cloth of blue-green silk velvet. It is embroidered with a white metal thread in floral designs. Once it would also have been decorated with gold or silver braid - this has been removed long ago. I have been told that this dates from the seventeenth century - but I do not know

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velvet saddle cloth embroidered saddle cloth detail of stitching Reverse of saddle cloth

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