Details
A fine set of twenty gros point needlework panels for chair seats and backs, for eight chairs and two carvers, worked in coloured wools and silks, with petit point details, mainly with figurative and classical scenes, others with animals, insects and flowers, each within a blue border, early 18th century, some re-workings
See Colour Plate for one example (20)
See Colour Plate for one example (20)
Provenance
Said to have been executed by the ladies of the Shakerley Family of Somerford Park and Hulme, Congleton.