Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 816
A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £280
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Description
A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
MID-19TH CENTURY
worked with silk floss on a silk ground, with various techniques and stitches, and with applied seedpearls for details, depicting probably Queen Victoria, together with a missionary man and a nun in an exotic landscape, meeting with a distinguished figure wearing detailed and expensive looking garment, a cape, with a headdress with a large feather and an impressive sword, with a guard behind him holding a spear, amongst palm trees, the faces, hands and feet of the figures with applied engraved pictures, in a verre eglomise glazed gilt frame
31 x 42.7cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.