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A NEEDLEWORK PICTURE, ENGLISH, EARLY TO MID 17TH CENTURY
the ivory satin silk ground elaborately embroidered in coloured silks with an elegant shepherd and shepherdess meeting by an elaborate fountain in an arbour entwined with honeysuckle, Tudor roses, a pea hen and a peacock atop the arch, stylised oak trees stemming from a rugged ground on either side above a lion and a leopard in the bottom corners, the foreground with a hound, a pair of rabbits, one emerging from a hole, and sheep--11 x 17in. (27.5 x 42.5cm.), framed and glazed
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the ivory satin silk ground elaborately embroidered in coloured silks with an elegant shepherd and shepherdess meeting by an elaborate fountain in an arbour entwined with honeysuckle, Tudor roses, a pea hen and a peacock atop the arch, stylised oak trees stemming from a rugged ground on either side above a lion and a leopard in the bottom corners, the foreground with a hound, a pair of rabbits, one emerging from a hole, and sheep--11 x 17in. (27.5 x 42.5cm.), framed and glazed
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