A re-applied crewelwork hanging embroidered in coloured wools with sinuous branches sprouting exotic foliage and flowers, with birds in the branches and a butterfly in one corner, the hillocky ground with acorns and leaping deer--84in. (210cm.) square, the embroidery probably mid 18th century with later re-workings, re-applied in the 20th century, rebacked

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A re-applied crewelwork hanging embroidered in coloured wools with sinuous branches sprouting exotic foliage and flowers, with birds in the branches and a butterfly in one corner, the hillocky ground with acorns and leaping deer--84in. (210cm.) square, the embroidery probably mid 18th century with later re-workings, re-applied in the 20th century, rebacked

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