A needlework picture, in coloured silks in tent stitch and silver metal threads, with two joined panels each with a noble lady, one playing a lute, the other holding a flower, with buildings behind and insects and flowers on the hillocky ground, within a border of animals, birds and flowers against a silver metal ground, possibly originally panels for a mirror--14in. square, framed and glazed, English, mid 17th century

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A needlework picture, in coloured silks in tent stitch and silver metal threads, with two joined panels each with a noble lady, one playing a lute, the other holding a flower, with buildings behind and insects and flowers on the hillocky ground, within a border of animals, birds and flowers against a silver metal ground, possibly originally panels for a mirror--14in. square, framed and glazed, English, mid 17th century

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