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AN EMBROIDERED PANEL OF IVORY LINEN, ENGLISH, CIRCA 1740
worked in coloured silks and wools with a shepherd observing peasants harvesting corn, beneath a flowering sweet chestnut tree with a squirrel, the foreground with thistles, white cyclamen, primulae and other flowers and an exuberant vine to the right, with a butterfly and a snake --38 x 23½in. (95 x 59cm.), framed and glazed, mounted on a pole screen, the walnut and parcel gilt foliate carved column terminating in S scroll splayed supports, circa 1900
worked in coloured silks and wools with a shepherd observing peasants harvesting corn, beneath a flowering sweet chestnut tree with a squirrel, the foreground with thistles, white cyclamen, primulae and other flowers and an exuberant vine to the right, with a butterfly and a snake --38 x 23½in. (95 x 59cm.), framed and glazed, mounted on a pole screen, the walnut and parcel gilt foliate carved column terminating in S scroll splayed supports, circa 1900
Literature
Embroidery in the Collection of Sir Frederick Richmond, Bt. - Part II, Wace, A.J.B., Apollo Vo.18, July- December 1933, figure X, p. 28
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