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Lot 550
Silk Pictorial Needlework
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Early 19th century, worked in silk on silk ground with watercolor on silk detailing to faces and hands, depicting the angel comforting Elija and encouraging hime to "Arise and eat." He awakens to find "cake baken on the coals and a cruse of water at his head", which rests under the tree behind him; stitched below "Elijah Comforted by an Angel / Kings Chapt 19 Ver 5." Presented under glass in an elaborate gilt and gesso frame.

SS 10.5 x 9.5 in.; DOA 16.75 x 15.75 in.

Some staining to silk ground; some shattering to silk; frame with some loss; glass broken in lower right corner. Not examined out of frame.