Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 18th January 2023
Lot 172
A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £500
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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 ploughing, 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.