AN EARLY VICTORIAN EMBROIDERED VELVET AND SILKWORK COMMEMORATIVE COVER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN EMBROIDERED VELVET AND SILKWORK COMMEMORATIVE COVER

DATED '1841'

worked with metal thread and brightly coloured silks, the exterior with ivy leaves and a cross, the interior with the Lord's prayer and dedications, inscribed 'The Reverend Henry Combs B. A. Fellow of St. John Baptist's College, Oxford. And Perpetual Curate of Summer Town Oxfordshire, St. John Baptists day Anno Domini 1841', mounted in a later Perspex and wood display case

23.5 x 38.3cm

Provenance

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