A stumpwork panel, 17th century

A stumpwork panel, 17th century, embroidered in polychrome threads in cotton and silk and possibly depicting the goddess Eris in contemporary dress and holding an apple beneath a canopy, the bottom section on a separate silk ground and showing trees beside a stone wall, surrounded by a plain border worked in metallic threads 44.5 x 16cm

Provenance: Sale; Phillips, The Margaret Simeon Collection of Needlework, Lace, Costume and Fans, 9 September 1992, lot 124, Collection of Mike Handford, 'Hillsleigh', Burford, Oxfordshire