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Lot 282
Pair of Georgian Silk and Watercolor Needleworks
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Both worked in silk on silk ground with watercolor detailing to hands and faces and with a scrolling floral border, the first of a shepherd with his staff and lamb in a pastoral setting; the second of a maiden comforting a fox with fox hunters in the distance. Both presented under églomisé glass in a molded gilt frame with bead detailing.

Sight size 14.5 x 10.5 in.; 9.5 x 15.5 in.

A Virginia Collector

Some discoloration and staining; a few very tiny holes; frame with some loss; not examined out of frame.