Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 6th July 2021
Lot 163
A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000
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Description
A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
C.1665
embroidered in fine petit point in polychrome wool and silks, depicting the fall of Icarus, with a lakeland scene, with a castle, a farmer plowing, a man fishing and a shepherd and shepherdess with their flock and Icarus falling from the sky while Daedalus is watching on in horror, in a cartouche border, later mounted on silk and applied with contemporary butterflies and snails, in a later glazed frame
30.5 x 27.5cm
Provenance
A Private European Collection. Acquired from Mayorcas Ltd, 38 Jermyn Street, St James's, London, 3rd October 1978 for £850.