TWO NEEDLEWORK PANELS

TWO NEEDLEWORK PANELS

EARLY 17TH CENTURY

embroidered in silks on linen with scenes of Orpheus surrounded by the animals he has charmed with his lyre and Charity with three children, between silver thread borders and flanked by rondels of maidens and above deep tassled fringes, mounted together in a faux tortoiseshell and ripple moulded frame

38.7 x 53.5cm

Provenance

From the private collection of the late Jonathan Horne.

Catalogue Note

A paper label to verso states that this lot was formerly on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum.