Wonderful English needlework crib cover, 17th c., with 35 magnificent slips and initialed "H.E.", by Honor Elliot, daughter of Vice Admiral of Devon Coast John Elliot, each slip worked in various silk threads in arrangements with floral and fruit trees, animals, etc., including tulips, pansies, lilies, birds, rabbit, caterpillars, elephant, wild boar, leopards, snail, dog, monkey, and others representing many varieties of stitchery and stump work, 37 1/2" x 44 1/2". Information on slips can be found in The Needlework Dictionary by Clabburn, pg. 244 and Antique Needlework by Lanto Synge, page 68, figure 41.