A needlework picture Mid 18th century, French
A needlework picture
Mid 18th century, French
The shaped centre panel designed with a young lady holding a chain of flowers, the surround with upright and curling flowering stems, each upper corner with a bird and lower corner with a mythical creature, worked in coloured wools and silks, the ground of laid bugle beads, framed and glazed, 71cm high, 59cm wide
Footnotes:
Refer: For similar bugle bead work, but on velvet ground, Musée Historique des Tissus, Lyon pub.1985 ISBN 4-7661-0362-9 item number 120.
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A needlework picture
Mid 18th century, French
The shaped centre panel designed with a young lady holding a chain of flowers, the surround with upright and curling flowering stems, each upper corner with a bird and lower corner with a mythical creature, worked in coloured wools and silks, the ground of laid bugle beads, framed and glazed, 71cm high, 59cm wide
Footnotes:
Refer: For similar bugle bead work, but on velvet ground, Musée Historique des Tissus, Lyon pub.1985 ISBN 4-7661-0362-9 item number 120.
