An Old Testament Biblical needlework panel, depicting the Discovery of Moses, probably French, first half 16th century

Property from the Berkeley Collection at Spetchley Park

An Old Testament Biblical needlework panel, depicting the Discovery of Moses, probably French, first half 16th century

finely worked in tent stitch, in polychrome silk and wool threads, with metal-thread detailing, figures set in a river landscape with distance European style town, and foreground with flowers and animals, including a unicorn, within similarly worked fruiting upper and lower borders, interspersed with fruiting cornucopia, winged angel heads, one with a crown, later mounted within a glazed, carved gilt frame

Glazed Frame: 51.5cm high, 64cm wide, 5cm deep; 1ft. 8in., 2ft. 1in., 1.9in: Textile visible: 39.5cm high, 52cm wide; 1ft. 3in., 1ft. 8in.