Two English embroidered and needlework pictures, 18th century

Property from the Estate of Philip Astley-Jones

Two English embroidered and needlework pictures, 18th century

including a floral embroidered picture finely worked in chain stitch with polychrome wools with various flowers and a small hillocky island centre of the lower edge, on a plain weave woven blue ground, probably originally part of a larger panel, within a glazed dark frame, together with a mythological needlework panel, dated 1744, worked in polychrome wool and silk in gros and petit-point, with a central cartouche enclosing a female classical figure with a tambourine, representing either Erato the muse of love and poetry, or Terpsichore, the muse of dance and song, flanked by two putti, one playing a flute in a woodland setting with oak trees, against a caramel ground with sprays of various flowers in each corner, dated 1744, lower left corner, within a later glazed ebonised and gilt frame

Framed floral panel: 44.5cm high, 51cm wide; 1ft 5in, 1ft 8in.

Together with a framed mythological panel: 38cm high, 49cm wide, 3cm deep; 1ft 2in, 1ft 7in, 1.18in.