£400 - £500
AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY SILKWORK PICTURE DEPICTING THE TREE OF LIFE.
This Queen Anne period silkwork picture, in unrestored order, presented in its original gilded and ebonised moulded frame and mounted on board, depicting three birds in a flowering tree with a lamb and running dog below surviving from the first quarter of 18th century England. The main bird pictured center is a phoenix or parrot, the other two flanking the tree perhaps partridges. World trees are frequently depicted with birds in their branches, and their roots extending into earth or water. The picture has some similarities with an American work by Mary King of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which was created in 1754.
(h 42cm x w 49cm)
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