A pair of oval needlework pictures worked in coloured wools and silks with hand-drawn details, against a silk ground, one depicting a family harvesting apples from a large tree, the other depicting a man playing a pipe to woo a shepherdess beneath a tree surrounded by her flock, a girl looking on and a shepherd boy in the background--both 13 x 10in. (33 x 26cm.), late 18th century, mounted in rectangular gilt frame, glazed
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A pair of oval needlework pictures worked in coloured wools and silks with hand-drawn details, against a silk ground, one depicting a family harvesting apples from a large tree, the other depicting a man playing a pipe to woo a shepherdess beneath a tree surrounded by her flock, a girl looking on and a shepherd boy in the background--both 13 x 10in. (33 x 26cm.), late 18th century, mounted in rectangular gilt frame, glazed

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A pair of oval needlework pictures worked in coloured wools and silks with hand-drawn details, against a silk ground, one depicting a family harvesting apples from a large tree, the other depicting a man playing a pipe to woo a shepherdess beneath a tree surrounded by her flock, a girl looking on and a shepherd boy in the background--both 13 x 10in. (33 x 26cm.), late 18th century, mounted in rectangular gilt frame, glazed
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