拍品 45
45
A needlework picture, finely worked in coloured silks with a falcon perched on a tree stump, a butterfly hovering nearby, on an ivory silk ground, the reverse with an inscription 'This picture is embroidered by my great aunt Albertina Sophia Baronesse van Pettenberg born the second of February 1748, daughter of Daniel Antonie Baron van Pettenberg' signed A L Bijlant--16½ x 15in. (42 x 38cm.), framed and glazed, light splitting to silk ground
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A needlework picture, finely worked in coloured silks with a falcon perched on a tree stump, a butterfly hovering nearby, on an ivory silk ground, the reverse with an inscription 'This picture is embroidered by my great aunt Albertina Sophia Baronesse van Pettenberg born the second of February 1748, daughter of Daniel Antonie Baron van Pettenberg' signed A L Bijlant--16½ x 15in. (42 x 38cm.), framed and glazed, light splitting to silk ground

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A needlework picture, finely worked in coloured silks with a falcon perched on a tree stump, a butterfly hovering nearby, on an ivory silk ground, the reverse with an inscription 'This picture is embroidered by my great aunt Albertina Sophia Baronesse van Pettenberg born the second of February 1748, daughter of Daniel Antonie Baron van Pettenberg' signed A L Bijlant--16½ x 15in. (42 x 38cm.), framed and glazed, light splitting to silk ground
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Joachim, Baron van Plettenberg, the embroideress' husband, was 'Gouverneur' of the Cape for the Verenigde Vostindische Compagnie: governor of the Dutch East Indian Trading Company, VOC circa 1770-1773. In South Africa there still is a Plettenberg Bay and other sights named after him.