A NEEDLEWORK PICTURE worked with a lady and gentleman in brightly coloured silks in petit point and various stitches including moss work, some raised work and buttonhole stitches, the collars and boots, the lady with a seed pearl necklace and the gentleman with silver buttons and spurs, the landscape worked with a pond, a rabbit, a leopard and other animals and insects and a house with trees and the sun above, English, mid 17th Century, in tortoiseshell veneer frame and glazed -- 10½ x 13in. (27 x 33cm.)
Details
A NEEDLEWORK PICTURE worked with a lady and gentleman in brightly coloured silks in petit point and various stitches including moss work, some raised work and buttonhole stitches, the collars and boots, the lady with a seed pearl necklace and the gentleman with silver buttons and spurs, the landscape worked with a pond, a rabbit, a leopard and other animals and insects and a house with trees and the sun above, English, mid 17th Century, in tortoiseshell veneer frame and glazed -- 10½ x 13in. (27 x 33cm.)
Provenance
Collection of Nina Weil, 29, labelled W Russell Button Gallery, 60 East Walton Place, Chicago 11
Lot Essay
The subjects are probably King Charles II and Queen Henrietta Maria