Crewelwork panel, English early 18th Century
Crewelwork Panel depicting the Tree of Life, with richly coloured exotic flowers, animals and birds and Oriental buildings, English early 18th Ccentury.
98¾” x 46½” (2,51m x 1,18m).
Similar animals and birds appear on curtains in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Museum No. T172-1923) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Accession Number 08.186a).
Another panel with the same design is illustrated in Lanto Synge, Art of Embroidery, pl. 161, p. 181.
