Comprising a pair of oval silkwork pictures in verre eglomisé-type rectangular frames, each depicting an 18th Century pastoral scene and worked predominantly in long and knotted stitches, the first of a lady and an infant girl, a dog tugging at the girl's apron, the second of a lady hanging a garland of roses on a tree, both framed and under glass, 25cm wide x 30cm high, together with a circular silkwork picture after Angelica Kauffman's The Punishment of Cupid, depicting Cupid bound to a tree, the three scantily-clad Graces to the foreground, one kneeling and holding Cupid's captured bow, his quiver of arrows in the foreground, framed and under glass, 42cm diameter, (3)
Comprising a pair of oval silkwork pictures in verre eglomisé-type rectangular frames, each depicting an 18th Century pastoral scene and worked predominantly in long and knotted stitches, the first of a lady and an infant girl, a dog tugging at the girl's apron, the second of a lady hanging a garland of roses on a tree, both framed and under glass, 25cm wide x 30cm high, together with a circular silkwork picture after Angelica Kauffman's The Punishment of Cupid, depicting Cupid bound to a tree, the three scantily-clad Graces to the foreground, one kneeling and holding Cupid's captured bow, his quiver of arrows in the foreground, framed and under glass, 42cm diameter, (3)
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