CIRCA 1660
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A CHARLES II SILK-EMBROIDERED NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
circa 1660
With a seated Apollo bearing a shepherd's crook and with his flock, with Mercury behind him holding a casuceus and wearing a winged helmet, and with three other figures possibly representing Daphne, the Cuamen Sibyl and Hyacinthus; within a landscape with a castle in the background, with flowering trees, a peacock, a lion and a stag; the sky with a winged child holding Apollo's wreath of laurel, worked in colored silks on a silk ground, within a molded tortoiseshell and ebonized frame
9¼in. (25cm.) high, 12½in. (32cm.) wide
circa 1660
With a seated Apollo bearing a shepherd's crook and with his flock, with Mercury behind him holding a casuceus and wearing a winged helmet, and with three other figures possibly representing Daphne, the Cuamen Sibyl and Hyacinthus; within a landscape with a castle in the background, with flowering trees, a peacock, a lion and a stag; the sky with a winged child holding Apollo's wreath of laurel, worked in colored silks on a silk ground, within a molded tortoiseshell and ebonized frame
9¼in. (25cm.) high, 12½in. (32cm.) wide