A silk and chenille embroidered picture with painted and metal thread details worked with a portrait of a woman wearing a crown holding a cross, possibly St. Helena, the cross inset with a relinquary purporting to hold a fragment of the true cross--14 x18in. (36 x 46cm.), late 18th century, framed and glazed

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A silk and chenille embroidered picture with painted and metal thread details worked with a portrait of a woman wearing a crown holding a cross, possibly St. Helena, the cross inset with a relinquary purporting to hold a fragment of the true cross--14 x18in. (36 x 46cm.), late 18th century, framed and glazed
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