A 17th century needlework picture
Finely worked in silk in tent stitch and couched thread with female figures representing two of the five senses: to the left, ‘Hearing’, playing a lute; and, to the right, ‘Sight’, gazing into an ornate looking glass. These two surrounded by a profusion of flowers, trees and animals, including a leopard, hawk, stag, squirrel and kingfisher, and a butterfly and caterpillars, in a rolling landscape with a wattle and daub house and a castle beneath an anthropomorphized sun.
Origin: England
Size: 42 x 48 cm
Date: Circa 1660-1680
Ref: 95
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