THREE NEEDLEWORK PANELS

THREE NEEDLEWORK PANELS

17TH CENTURY

worked with polychrome silk floss on a plain weave undyed linen with brick, long and short, stem and tent stitch depicting the Story of Tobias, probably after the woodcuts by Bernard Salomon 'The True and lyvely Historyke Purtreatures of the Woll Bible', each panel in a stylised cartouche, with figures, animals, fish and buildings, possibly originally intended for a box, in later glazed ebonised moulded frames (3)

16 x 26.5cm (max)

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp. 54-55. for a discussion of these panels.