A pair of needlework casket panels, worked in coloured silks in many different stitches, one possibly depicting the "Return of the Prodigal Son" with an elderly seated gentleman greeting a younger man, and another young man behind, the other with a gentleman leading a lady on horseback towards an elegant house with mica windows and smoking chimneys, both panels with an upper border of flowers and insects, inverted--10¾in x 5½in., English, 17th century

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A pair of needlework casket panels, worked in coloured silks in many different stitches, one possibly depicting the "Return of the Prodigal Son" with an elderly seated gentleman greeting a younger man, and another young man behind, the other with a gentleman leading a lady on horseback towards an elegant house with mica windows and smoking chimneys, both panels with an upper border of flowers and insects, inverted--10¾in x 5½in., English, 17th century
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