A late 17th century English silk-embroidered silver and gilt-thread stumpwork picture
The central oval cartouche depicting a ship in full sail gliding through a narrow body of water, flanked by islands with animals, with insects and birds above and a swan, hedgehog and snake amongst the rushes in the foreground, all under a radiating sun, the scene surrounded by ribbon tied scrolling and fruiting tendrils and vines, on a blue silk ground, in simulated tortoiseshell frame, the picture: 41cm high, 52cm wide, (16in high, 20in wide)
Footnotes:
Provenance: With Katherine Christophers, Gloucestershire.
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Overall in good condition.
Some tarnishing to silver and silver-gilt threads and some fading commensurate with the age and use.
Some rippling throughout to blue silk ground.
Elements of rigging loose with minor detachments.
Possible minor repair (approx. 2cm) above the top-left flag of the ship, and another above ear of left-hand wolf.
Losses to stem of one rush to right of scene.
Minor imperfections and possible repairs, dropped stitches throughout.
Scuffs, marks and scratches to frame as to be expected.

The size including frame: 50cm high, 63cm wide.

Lot not examined out of frame.