An oval embroidered picture, worked in coloured silks with a stylised vase overflowing with flowers beneath a hovering butterfly, the reverse pasted with a note Martha Jane Owen Finished this piece of work the 24 day of June in the year of our Lord 1782 and in the 15 year of her age----22.75 x 19in. (58 x 48.5cm.), late 18th century, original silk ground cut away and re-mounted, framed and glazed, some wear