A needlework picture , finely worked in coloured silks with a falcon perched on a tree stump, a butterfly hovering nearby, on an ivory silk ground, the reverse with an inscription 'This picture is embroidered by my great aunt Albertina Sophia Baronesse van Pettenberg born the second of February 1748, daughter of Daniel Antonie Baron van Pettenberg' signed A L Bijlant -- 16½ x 15in. (42 x 38cm.), framed and glazed, light splitting to silk ground See Illustration
A needlework picture , finely worked in coloured silks with a falcon perched on a tree stump, a butterfly hovering nearby, on an ivory silk ground, the reverse with an inscription 'This picture is embroidered by my great aunt Albertina Sophia Baronesse van Pettenberg born the second of February 1748, daughter of Daniel Antonie Baron van Pettenberg' signed A L Bijlant -- 16½ x 15in. (42 x 38cm.), framed and glazed, light splitting to silk ground See Illustration
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