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Lot 2246
Antique English Framed Pictorial Needlework
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Early 18th century, two pieces joined at center and worked in wool on linen backing, depicting various narrative scenes in front of two castles and a cottage, including two courting couples, a female musician, a male on horseback hunting a bear, in a field of fruit trees with various flora and fauna, unsigned. Presented in a later antique gilt and painted wood frame.

Frame dimensions 26 3/4 x 45 1/4 in.

Vertical seam to center; some color fade; scattered areas of thread loss. Some scattered small chips/gilt loss to frame.