A needlework panel embroidered in coloured silks against a linen ground with vase of peonies, tulips, lilies and other flowers, with exotic birds and butterflies, a parrot in one corner, the vase on a plinth, a hillocky ground below, within a border of pale blue ribbon foliage entwined around poles, the ground embroidered in pale yellow silks with a vermicular pattern--30 x 45in. (75 x 113cm.), second quarter of the 18th century, English, framed and glazed, some damage

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A needlework panel embroidered in coloured silks against a linen ground with vase of peonies, tulips, lilies and other flowers, with exotic birds and butterflies, a parrot in one corner, the vase on a plinth, a hillocky ground below, within a border of pale blue ribbon foliage entwined around poles, the ground embroidered in pale yellow silks with a vermicular pattern--30 x 45in. (75 x 113cm.), second quarter of the 18th century, English, framed and glazed, some damage
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