Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower blonde wood box 8 11/16” x 7 1/8”

8 11/16” x 7 1/8”

or a great tray for arranging bowls and boxes and objects atop

what looks to be a little upside-down heart in pencil

It was set in a heavy

difficult to know quite where one ends and another begins

Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower blonde wood box 8 11/16” x 7 1/8”This one. I purchased her from a dealer in my neck of the woods with really exceptional things all pretty much all beyond my reach, but this came along with a much more elaborate 17th c. stumpwork, which was his interest, and so I was able to attain her and I do feel as though she travelled across nearly four hundred years and an ocean just to be found by me! I mean, look at those hands! This is a fragment from a c. mid 17th century English stump work