"Esther and Ahasuerus", a fine needlework picture of coloured silks embroidered in tiny tent stitch and metal purl, and embellished in seed pearls, illustrating in detail the biblical story with the King granting the presence of his Queen, the banquet, the bedchamber, and in one corner Haman on the gallows, all amid a rural and hilly landscape crowded with many flowers, birds, insects and animals with cities behind--20 x 15in. (50 x 37cm), in simulated tortoiseshell frame, glazed, English, 17th century