Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 21st October 2020

Lot 81

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER BY MARY MAJOR

Estimate £200 - £300

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Description

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY MAJOR, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH

worked with alphabets and numbers, with love hearts, with stylised trees and a basket, inscribed 'Mary Major Her work aged 8, 1831', with an unusual woolwork outer border, in a later gilt and simulated walnut frame

39.4 x 41.7cm