An embroidered picture worked in coloured silks and gilt metal threads with a nobleman greeting a lady as she draws water from a well, with a town behind and birds and a ladybird and hornet, the well water and windows of the buildings of mica, probably a panel from a casket--8¼in x 5½in., framed and glazed, 17th century (colours faded, water stain)

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An embroidered picture worked in coloured silks and gilt metal threads with a nobleman greeting a lady as she draws water from a well, with a town behind and birds and a ladybird and hornet, the well water and windows of the buildings of mica, probably a panel from a casket--8¼in x 5½in., framed and glazed, 17th century (colours faded, water stain)

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