Framed Silk Pictorial Needlework

Silk ground with silk thread embroidery and applied painted paper details, depicting a scene of a man on a shore being restrained by three others while a lone woman stands on the deck of a ship on the water, possibly representing a contemporary telling of the story of Eurydice parting from Orpheus and traveling across the River Styx, under glass with black eglomise border with gilded edge, in contemporary carved frame.

16 x 12.5 inches framed dimensions

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Loss to some areas around the figures faces, scattered areas of discoloration and staining, not examined out of frame.