A raised work picture, the centre with a couple flanked by buildings with a pond below, the sun above, the corners with oval medallions containing double portraits of women, possibly a personification of Spring with Venus and Flora, worked in coloured silks in various stitches including detached buttonhole stitch, chenille, metal threads and metal purl with bead and mica highlights, against an ivory satin ground spotted with gilt metal spangles--18½ x 15in. (46 x 38cm.), mid 17th century, framed and glazed