FINE VICTORIAN FIREPLACE SCREEN WITH BEADED NEEDLEPOINT INSERT

Victorian carved wood fireplace screen, late 19thc., having openwork crest with cartouche and scrollwork, needlepoint tapestry panel insert with bead-embroidered depiction of the Classical blind poet, Homer, playing a lyre, silver (content unknown) plaque affixed verso inscribed in Dutch, "In Remembrance of your Honorable (?) Priests' Feast of Your Grateful Children the Pupils of the (?) of O.L. (?)," overall: approx 48.75"h, 31.25"w, 21.5"d, 26lbs