A charming needlework panel, probably for a seat cover, embroidered in coloured silks against an ivory satin ground, with a man standing on a branch in the foreground picking large golden pears from a tree and with a dancing couple playing castanets beside a drummer and a bagpipe-player, with a Grandee on horseback in the upper left about to shoot rabbits coming out of a warren with large insects about him, the whole picture surrounded by a floral border--27 x 24in. (69 x 61cm.), late 18th century, probably from Asturias, Northern Spanish, framed and glazed, some water damage and splitting, some very small ink marks
A charming needlework panel, probably for a seat cover, embroidered in coloured silks against an ivory satin ground, with a man standing on a branch in the foreground picking large golden pears from a tree and with a dancing couple playing castanets beside a drummer and a bagpipe-player, with a Grandee on horseback in the upper left about to shoot rabbits coming out of a warren with large insects about him, the whole picture surrounded by a floral border--27 x 24in. (69 x 61cm.), late 18th century, probably from Asturias, Northern Spanish, framed and glazed, some water damage and splitting, some very small ink marks

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A charming needlework panel, probably for a seat cover, embroidered in coloured silks against an ivory satin ground, with a man standing on a branch in the foreground picking large golden pears from a tree and with a dancing couple playing castanets beside a drummer and a bagpipe-player, with a Grandee on horseback in the upper left about to shoot rabbits coming out of a warren with large insects about him, the whole picture surrounded by a floral border--27 x 24in. (69 x 61cm.), late 18th century, probably from Asturias, Northern Spanish, framed and glazed, some water damage and splitting, some very small ink marks
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