Lot Essay
Worked by Mary Louisa Harris
Details
An embroidered panel
worked in coloured silks and couched gilt threads with exotic winged creatures perched on a branch with a bird and butterfly and flowering stem, against a dark cream ground--17 x 22½in. (42 x 56cm), in mirror frame, glazed, late 19th century; and an embroidered border of coloured wools in cross stitch with geometric design--174 x 6in. (435 x 15cm., circa 1870 (2)
worked in coloured silks and couched gilt threads with exotic winged creatures perched on a branch with a bird and butterfly and flowering stem, against a dark cream ground--17 x 22½in. (42 x 56cm), in mirror frame, glazed, late 19th century; and an embroidered border of coloured wools in cross stitch with geometric design--174 x 6in. (435 x 15cm., circa 1870 (2)