A pair of octagonal woolwork panels for handscreens, with silk details, with a central rose within a garland of convolulous and ivy against a dark brown ground, late 18th/early 19th century, re-workings; a tea cosy worked with an arrangement of roses and other flowers against a cream ground, 1870s; nine coloured silk mats with photo lithographic portraits of Japanese ladies, circa 1910; four embroidered mats similar; and two handkerchieves, early 20th century

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A pair of octagonal woolwork panels for handscreens, with silk details, with a central rose within a garland of convolulous and ivy against a dark brown ground, late 18th/early 19th century, re-workings; a tea cosy worked with an arrangement of roses and other flowers against a cream ground, 1870s; nine coloured silk mats with photo lithographic portraits of Japanese ladies, circa 1910; four embroidered mats similar; and two handkerchieves, early 20th century

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