Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower wooden bird whistle 19 3/8” t x 10

19 3/8” t x 10 3/16” w x 5 1/2” d and in good condition

I am guessing mid 19th century

as much as almost anything else

Over time I've found a few of these late 19th/early 20th century handmade clowns

with a backside to my eye (less the tape) as beautiful as the front

Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower wooden bird whistle 19 3/8” t x 10This 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