A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

worked with coloured wools and silk on a canvas ground, with tent stitch and petit point, with a shepherd playing the flute and a shepherdess, accompanied by their dog and with a flock of sheep, to the left a water feature and a gnarled tree, to the right a castle before a lake, in a later glazed gilt frame

32.9 x 42cm

Provenance

Christie's, The Mill House, Sonning, 20th-22nd June 1994, lot 489.

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