Laid Silk Embroidery. English Mid 17th Century.
Depicting a fashionably dressed couple with attendants against a background abounding in small animals, insects and plants.
English. Circa 1660.
Framed Size.17 x 21 ins.
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Rebekah Greeting Eliezer
Eliezer was Abraham's servant and his meeting at the well with Rebekah was a popular needlework subject at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, both in raised work and tent stitch. English. Circa 1700.
Framed size: 66 x 60 cm.
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Flight into Egypt
A beautifully worked interpretation of this subject, embroidered in fine wool. Long and short tent stitch detail in silk on the faces of Mary, Joseph and the Christ child.
Framed size: 44 x 32 cm.
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Cope Hood
A fine cope hood with heavy metallic fringed border. The faces and hands of The Virgin and Christchild worked in split stitch, the robes in couched floss silk and gold thread on a gold thread diapered ground. Spanish or Italian. Circa 1580.
Framed size: 71 x 69 cm.
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Silk Work. Frances Stewart.
A rare embroidered portrait believed to be that of Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, born 1647. Worked on a silk, satin weave with carefully shaded floss silks.
English. Mid 17th Century.Framed Size. 19 x 16 ins.
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Unfinished 17th Century Picture.
A brilliantly coloured partially worked embroidery in tent and rococo stitch in shaded floss silks on a linen ground, the unfinished area with drawn details clearly visible.
English. Circa 1660.
Framed Size. 13 x 15 ins.
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Hagar and lshmael.
Hagar and Ishmael have been cast into the wilderness but fortunately a helpful angel is pointing to a source of water. Brightly coloured silks and wool. English. Circa 1720.
Framed size: 56 x 59.5 cm. (22.5 x 24 ins.)
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Linen Coif. Circa 1660.
This exceptional and rare example of a ladies coif is embroidered in polychrome silk and metallic thread on a linen ground. Worked in blue, red, pink, yellow, green and ivory silk and silver gilt; drawer string closure.
References: Matching forehead cloth in the victoria and Albert Museum. T.76 - 1911.
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