Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 195
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £380
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Description
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY MARY ANNE OWEN, PROBABLY WELSH
worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with cross, satin and split stitches, with an oversized rabbit, a pair of elephants, snails, fish and lions, and a young lady holding a trug of gathered flowers, flanked by a pair of giant roses, signed and dated 'Mary Anne Owen 1846', in a glazed bird's eye maple and gilt frame
35.6 x 30.6cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.162 for a discussion of this sampler.