Description
An Exceptionally Fine Pair of English Walnut Framed Needlework Wall Scones. The break D-ended petit-point panels bordered in moulding set in silhouette cut surrounds with scrolling pediments and twin brass S-scroll candle arms fitted to the base. The bucolic scenes each depicting a couple; the man playing an instrument; one a pipe, the other a lute, accompanied by a lady with a dog in the foreground and house behind. 22½” x 14” (57 cm x 36 cm). [For two very similar examples dated to Queen Anne, formerley in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, see The Metropolitan Museum Collection, New York, accession numbers; 64.101.1016 and 64.101.1017. Also see Adam Bowett ‘Early Georgian Furniture’ 1715-1740 (2009) p. 279, p.6:24, for another comparable period pair].