λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK ANTI SLAVE-TRADE POT-HOLDER

λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK ANTI SLAVE-TRADE POT-HOLDER

ANONYMOUS, PROBABLY AMERICAN

worked in cross stitch with a pair of black figures dancing, inscribed 'Any holder but a Slaveholder', in a glazed rosewood frame

15 x 19cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.170 for a discussion of this sampler.