A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK AND BEADWORK PICTURE

Several of the elements appear to have been inspired by the same source as similar examples, including one at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The floral slips and their placement, the elaborate frame and especially the pair of birds at the top edge suggest a common print or image used by the various embroideresses in rendering their masterpieces (Mary M. Brooks, English Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, pp. 64-65).