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Description

A stumpwork panel, 17th century,

embroidered in polychrome threads in cotton and silk and possibly depicting the goddess Eris in contemporary dress and holding an apple beneath a canopy, the bottom section on a separate silk ground and showing trees beside a stone wall, surrounded by a plain border worked in metallic threads
44.5 x 16cm



Provenance:
Sale; Phillips, The Margaret Simeon Collection of Needlework, Lace, Costume and Fans, 9 September 1992, lot 124,
Collection of Mike Handford, 'Hillsleigh', Burford, Oxfordshire

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