Details
A needlework picture, the ivory satin silk ground appliquéd with spot motifs worked in embroidered coloured silks and some metal thread with roses, tulips, irises, pansies and medallions of a stag, a lion, a squirrel and a wolf around a circular medallion in the centre depicting Orpheus wearing a laurel crown, seated under a tree in a landscape, charming the animals with the sound of his lyre, with a stag and a lion at his sides, a squirrel in the tree and a bird in flight approaching him--20 x 17in. (50 x 42cm.), glazed in a tortoiseshell veneered frame, glazed, English, 17th century
Provenance
The collection of the late Sir Frederick Richmond Bt.
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