AN EARLY LOUIS XV FRAMED NEEDLEWORK PANEL
AN EARLY LOUIS XV FRAMED NEEDLEWORK PANEL

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AN EARLY LOUIS XV FRAMED NEEDLEWORK PANEL
The gros and petit point needlework in wools and silks, depicting two men in armour greeting four seated women, in a landscape, with a foliate and strapwork border on a brown ground, reduced from a larger panel, in a modern blue-painted slip and giltwood frame with sanded border and moulded frame
37½ in. x 32½ in. (94.5 cm. x 82.5 cm.), including frame
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Mallett.

拍品專文

The foliage-framed vignette of Roman history depicts a love scene from Homer's Iliad with Cupid leading the Trojan hero Aeneas to Dido, Queen of Carthage.