Fresque restoration

Restoration of a historic painting (100 years or more?) over the fireplace of an old basalt Creusois house, before/after.

The symmetrical vases of flowers were reasonably visible but the central image impossible to make out.  At the homeowner's request, I painted two ladies spinning wool and tending a garden.

Egg tempera and natural pigments, as close to the original materials as I know how.