Lot 87

THREE GEORGIAN SILK NEEDLEWORK PICTURES
LATE 18TH CENTURY












Auction: Lots 1 - 335 | 04 September at 10am
£303
Description
all oval and worked in silk with various stitches on silk grounds, the first depicting a young man playing a pipe while a young lady looks on, 40cm x 29 [sight size]; the second with three young maidens laying floral tributes on an urn while a Roman soldier looks on, in an eglomise mount, 35cm x 27cm, [sight size]; and a small scene of a cottage by a river, in an eglomise mount, 14cm x 18cm [sight size]; in gilt frames (3)
Dimensions
overall sizes 54cm x 43cm; 40cm x 34cm; and 24cm x 28cm
Provenance
Provenance: Property from a Glasgow estate
Footnote
Note: One with a handwritten inscription on the back ‘Worked by one of my Aunts … at a boarding school in Dundee (?) in 1799’











