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A NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
ENGLISH, 17TH CENTURY
the ivory satin silk ground appliquéd with spot motifs worked in embroidered coloured silks and some metal thread with roses, tulips, irises, pansies and medallions of a stag, a lion, a squirrel and a wolf around a circular medallion in the centre depicting Orpheus wearing a laurel crown, seated under a tree in a landscape, charming the animals with the sound of his lyre (metamorphoses 10:86-105), with a stag and a lion at his sides, a squirrel in the tree and a bird in flight approaching him--20 x 17in. (50 x 42cm.), glazed, in a tortoiseshell veneered frame
ENGLISH, 17TH CENTURY
the ivory satin silk ground appliquéd with spot motifs worked in embroidered coloured silks and some metal thread with roses, tulips, irises, pansies and medallions of a stag, a lion, a squirrel and a wolf around a circular medallion in the centre depicting Orpheus wearing a laurel crown, seated under a tree in a landscape, charming the animals with the sound of his lyre (metamorphoses 10:86-105), with a stag and a lion at his sides, a squirrel in the tree and a bird in flight approaching him--20 x 17in. (50 x 42cm.), glazed, in a tortoiseshell veneered frame
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