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CIRCA 1660
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A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE DEPICTING A GENTLEMAN AND HIS BLACKAMOOR SERVANT
CIRCA 1660
Worked in satin stitch with purl, moss and detached button hole stitched details, with a central oval cartouche flanked by large floral slips, hart and unicorn above a fortified town with lion and leopard to either side, labelled to the reverse; 'City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Exhibition of Treasures from Midland Homes, 1938, The Property of Major J Dent-Brocklehurst'
19.5 x 21 in. (49.5 x 54 cm.)
framed and glazed, the reverse with a further label inscribed 'Major J. Dent-Brocklehurst' and inscribed to the frame 'Mrs Dent, Sudeley Castle'
CIRCA 1660
Worked in satin stitch with purl, moss and detached button hole stitched details, with a central oval cartouche flanked by large floral slips, hart and unicorn above a fortified town with lion and leopard to either side, labelled to the reverse; 'City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Exhibition of Treasures from Midland Homes, 1938, The Property of Major J Dent-Brocklehurst'
19.5 x 21 in. (49.5 x 54 cm.)
framed and glazed, the reverse with a further label inscribed 'Major J. Dent-Brocklehurst' and inscribed to the frame 'Mrs Dent, Sudeley Castle'
Provenance
Major J. H. Dent-Brocklehurst, O.B.E. (d.1949), Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
Exhibited
Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Treasures From Midland Homes, 1938, Property of Major J. Dent-Brocklehurst.
Special notice
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