A RARE CHARLES II STUMPWORK PANEL DATED 1669 Worked in raised work and needlework with seed pear detailing, possibly depicting King Charles II meeting Catherine of Braganza, the latter with attendants, her first attendant black, holding a parasol dated with seed pearls 1669, framed and glazed panel 29cm x 39cm, frame 39.5cm x 49.5cm The composition of this stumpwork is not unusual and variants have been titled "Solomon receiving the Queen of Sheba" and "Esther and King Ahasuerus of Persia". Here, the distinctive whiskers and small goatee would tend to indicate that this may have been intended to be a portrait of Charles II (see for example the picture in the Metropolitan Museum- Gift of Mrs. H. H. Shearson, 1937, Accession Number: 37.65.1).It is rare to see the inclusion of a specific date. Rarer still is the inclusion of an African woman in the scene. It suggests perhaps that whoever worked the panel lived in a household with black servants- or that they had had experience of seeing either tapestries or oil paintings where such occurrences are more frequent. One of the very few comparable examples that could be found at the time of cataloguing was a needlework mirror that was sold in 2011 at Bonham's London from The Richmond Collection of Early English Needlework (2nd March 2011, lot 1, £33,600).
A RARE CHARLES II STUMPWORK PANEL DATED 1669 Worked in raised work and needlework with seed pear detailing, possibly depicting King Charles II meeting Catherine of Braganza, the latter with attendants, her first attendant black, holding a parasol dated with seed pearls 1669, framed and glazed panel 29cm x 39cm, frame 39.5cm x 49.5cm The composition of this stumpwork is not unusual and variants have been titled "Solomon receiving the Queen of Sheba" and "Esther and King Ahasuerus of Persia". Here, the distinctive whiskers and small goatee would tend to indicate that this may have been intended to be a portrait of Charles II (see for example the picture in the Metropolitan Museum- Gift of Mrs. H. H. Shearson, 1937, Accession Number: 37.65.1).It is rare to see the inclusion of a specific date. Rarer still is the inclusion of an African woman in the scene. It suggests perhaps that whoever worked the panel lived in a household with black servants- or that they had had experience of seeing either tapestries or oil paintings where such occurrences are more frequent. One of the very few comparable examples that could be found at the time of cataloguing was a needlework mirror that was sold in 2011 at Bonham's London from The Richmond Collection of Early English Needlework (2nd March 2011, lot 1, £33,600).
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