A Regency felt appliqué and needlework picture, circa 1820

Created using various coloured felts on a dark brown wool flannel stitched with fine coloured wool and silk threads, depicting a still life of fruit centred by a bunch of white grapes and ripe peaches resting against a spilled basket of strawberries, a pineapple to one side whilst a bird perches on a peach helping itself to black grapes, in the background a butterfly alights on the curling tendril of a vine, another is in flight and to the foreground red and white berries, cherries and hazelnuts lie strewn, framed, verre eglomisé glazed, dimensions include frame

• Height 57 cm / 22 "
• Width 62 cm / 24 "