English, circa 1660
The ivory silk ground embroidered in coloured silks and metal thread with needlelace, raised, padded, purled and coiled work, the left shutter with a wild man wearing a skirt of flowers, a circlet of flowers in his hair, seated beneath a tree with a bow and arrow beside him, a spider hanging from a tree and a squirrel on a branch before him, the right shutter with a blackamoor woman standing beneath a tree and wearing a feather skirt, a seed pearl necklace and bracelets and smoking a pipe, a parrot on a branch before her, the border with a camel, a rose, a horse (unicorn), a carnation, a lion, a thistle, a leopard and an iris, having silver braid edge, lined and backed with salmon pink silk,
38 x 35cm (15 x 13¾in), set within a tortoiseshell and ebonised easel frame.