Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 220
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £300
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Description
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY MARY ANN HOWES, C.1840
worked with monochrome red floss silk on a linen ground, with various stitches, including: Algerian eye, cross and four-sided, with alphabets, numerals, crowns, a flag and leaves and flowers, with five verses, signed 'Mary Ann Howes', in a later glazed ebonised frame
36.2 x 33cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.86 for a discussion of this sampler.