CIRCA 1660
Details
A CHARLES II SILK-EMBROIDERED NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
circa 1660
Depicting the 'Visitation' of the Virgin to her cousin Elizabeth and depicting Mary with an attending bishop greeting Elizabeth, within a landscape with a castle and church in the background, and worked with flowers, trees, birds and animals including a stag and lion, worked in tent stitch, within a modern tortoiseshell molded frame, with a typed paper label 'MRS. M. TAYLOR, KILLINGWORTH, LOCUST VALLEY, LONG ISLAND'
18in. (46cm.) high, 21in. (53cm.) wide overall
circa 1660
Depicting the 'Visitation' of the Virgin to her cousin Elizabeth and depicting Mary with an attending bishop greeting Elizabeth, within a landscape with a castle and church in the background, and worked with flowers, trees, birds and animals including a stag and lion, worked in tent stitch, within a modern tortoiseshell molded frame, with a typed paper label 'MRS. M. TAYLOR, KILLINGWORTH, LOCUST VALLEY, LONG ISLAND'
18in. (46cm.) high, 21in. (53cm.) wide overall
Provenance
Myron C. Taylor, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 3-5 November 1960, lot 282