A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK STUMPWORK PICTURE

A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK STUMPWORK PICTURE

C.1680

worked with various stitches and techniques and appliqued onto a satin weave cream silk, depicting Charles II and Catherine of Braganza holding hands under a flower entwined arbour, with a caterpillar, a butterfly and a bird, with further flowers and insects, above a rocky lake flanked by a recumbent stag, unicorn, lion and leopard, in a later glazed gilt frame

43.4 x 52cm

Provenance

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