A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

C.1665

embroidered in fine petit point in polychrome wool and silks, depicting the fall of Icarus, with a lakeland scene, with a castle, a farmer plowing, a man fishing, a shepherd and shepherdess with their flock and Icarus falling from the sky while Daedalus is watching on in horror, in a cartouche border, later mounted on silk and applied with contemporary butterflies and snails, in a later glazed frame

30.5 x 27.5cm

Provenance

A Private European Collection. Acquired from Mayorcas Ltd, 38 Jermyn Street, St James's, London, 3rd October 1978 for £850.