Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day One - 5th July 2023
Lot 99
TWO NEEDLEWORK PANELS
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £1500
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Description
TWO NEEDLEWORK PANELS
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
embroidered in silks on linen with scenes of Orpheus surrounded by the animals he has charmed with his lyre and Charity with three children, between silver thread borders and flanked by rondels of maidens and above deep tassled fringes, mounted together in a faux tortoiseshell and ripple moulded frame
38.7 x 53.5cm
Provenance
From the private collection of the late Jonathan Horne.
Catalogue Note
A paper label to verso states that this lot was formerly on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum.