Mallett at Bourdon House

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Lot 1049
  • 1049

An English needlework pastoral panel with a parrot first quarter 18th century

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Framed: 54cm. high, 61cm. wide; 1ft. 9in. 2ft.; Textile visible: 36cm. high, 43cm. wide; 1ft. 2in., 1ft. 5in.
worked in polychrome silk and wool in tent stitch with a landscape setting with a central tree stump supporting a parrot in profile with a berry in its beak, with flowers and a rabbit to each side on stylised hillocky foreground, with flying birds and butterflies above and a cloud filled sky with ray burst sun, mounted in a later giltwood and glazed frame