Charles II Silk and Metallic Thread Needlework

British, circa 1660, raised work depicting King and Queen with silk covered wooden faces and dressed in fine attire, sheltered by an awning, grotto below flanked by lion and camel in lower corners, castles in background with mica covered windows, pear and lemon trees, parrot, dog, rabbit and other animal and plant motifs throughout, fine silk embroidery, detached buttonhole elements, silk wrapped metallic thread on cream silk ground, metallic brocade border, 17-3/4 x 12 in.; wood veneer frame with carved gilt liner, 15-1/4 x 20-1/2 in.ÿÿ - Provenance: Richmond Collection, Christie's, South Kensington, June 23, 1987, Lot 163; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey
Condition Report: wear to silk on wooden faces and hands, losses to hands, stitch losses to King's ermine trimmed robe, fading, minor toning to silk ground, abrasions to frame, stitched to linen backing that has been stitched to later linen backing and mounted to board