Antique Silkwork Embroidery 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac'
   
Description
Antique Silkwork Embroidery 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac'. The embroidery is worked in silk on a silk ground, in a variety of stitches. Colours gold, light brown, black, pink, greens, blue and silver. Picture titled, 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac.'', depicts Abraham brandishing a large knife, gazing up to an angel above. Isaac lies on a bed of wood, on a stone plinth. The scene also has a pail and a pile of sticks in the foreground, a rams head, figures with a donkey and an overhaning tree. (The Binding of Isaac is a story from the Hebrew Bible found in Genesis 22. In the biblical narrative, God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Moriah. Abraham begins to comply, when a messenger from God interrupts him. Abraham then sees a ram and sacrifices it instead.) Framed in an old burr maple veneer wooden frame with gilt slip and glass. Fixed to linen with wood backing.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Dimensions:

12.6ins high, 9.6ins wide, 1.2ins deep

Period:

George III, circa 1800

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Antique Silkwork Embroidery 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac'

George III, circa 1800. 12.6ins high, 9.6ins wide, 1.2ins deep. Antique Silkwork Embroidery 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac'.

The embroidery is worked in silk on a silk ground, in a variety of stitches. Colours gold, light brown, black, pink, greens, blue and silver.

Picture titled, 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac.'', depicts Abraham brandishing a large knife, gazing up to an angel above. Isaac lies on a bed of wood, on a stone plinth.

The scene also has a pail

and a pile of sticks in the foreground,

a rams head,

figures with a donkey

and an overhaning tree.

Framed in an old burr maple veneer wooden frame with gilt slip and glass.

Fixed to linen with wood backing.

CONDITION: Good. Two small holes on the left hand edge.

Slight freying around the word 'Abraham'.

Patches of inconspicuous very light staining. No stitch losses. Colours are still well defined. No colour run. Frame showing some wear, but is structurally sound. Gilt loss to the gilt slip. In our opinion could be hung 'as is'.


Antique Silkwork Embroidery 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac'. The embroidery is worked in silk on a silk ground, in a variety of stitches. Colours gold, light brown, black, pink, greens, blue and silver. Picture titled, 'Abraham offering up his Son Isaac.'', depicts Abraham brandishing a large knife, gazing up to an angel above. Isaac lies on a bed of wood, on a stone plinth. The scene also has a pail and a pile of sticks in the foreground, a rams head, figures with a donkey and an overhaning tree. (The Binding of Isaac is a story from the Hebrew Bible found in Genesis 22. In the biblical narrative, God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Moriah. Abraham begins to comply, when a messenger from God interrupts him. Abraham then sees a ram and sacrifices it instead.) Framed in an