Lot 350
350
A needlework picture, worked in coloured silks on an ivory satin ground, depicting to the left Elijah being fed by ravens and to the right with Elijah, the widow of Zarephath, with a seed pearl necklace and lace bertha, and her son, the remaining field with trees, castle, camel and leopard, the lower ground with a dog chasing a duck on a pond surrounded by moss work and seed pearls--12 x 16¾in. (30.5 x 43cm.), mid 17th century, framed and glazed, light damage and staining to ground
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more These items of fine needlework and embroidery come from the private home of Dr Nicholas Kemp who buit up a personal collection from the 1950s to 1970s. His wife, Doris Hutchison, studied and taught embroidery at Glasgow School of Art in the 1940s and was an accomplished artist and embroiderer in her own right.
A needlework picture, worked in coloured silks on an ivory satin ground, depicting to the left Elijah being fed by ravens and to the right with Elijah, the widow of Zarephath, with a seed pearl necklace and lace bertha, and her son, the remaining field with trees, castle, camel and leopard, the lower ground with a dog chasing a duck on a pond surrounded by moss work and seed pearls--12 x 16¾in. (30.5 x 43cm.), mid 17th century, framed and glazed, light damage and staining to ground

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A needlework picture, worked in coloured silks on an ivory satin ground, depicting to the left Elijah being fed by ravens and to the right with Elijah, the widow of Zarephath, with a seed pearl necklace and lace bertha, and her son, the remaining field with trees, castle, camel and leopard, the lower ground with a dog chasing a duck on a pond surrounded by moss work and seed pearls--12 x 16¾in. (30.5 x 43cm.), mid 17th century, framed and glazed, light damage and staining to ground
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