A fine Charles II silk needlework picture, third quarter 17th century, coloured silk thread embroidered on canvas, depicting an elegant, possibly aristocratic couple, she holding a goblet and he a sword or other long object, in an extensive landscape with buildings and populated with various European and exotic animals, birds, and insects including a lion, camel, and deer, a small tablet below the sun at upper centre with an illegible inscription, possibly including a date (1675-), mounted behind glass in a simulated tortoiseshell frame, 30.5 x 49.5 cm