Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 226
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £100 - £150 | Hammer £220
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Description
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY LUCY COLLETT
worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with cross and rice stitches, the top with an upper case alphabet and the numbers from one to twelve, above a verse, the centre inscribed 'Lucy Collett Bourton on the Water', with a lower case alphabet running through, the lower part with a sprawling tree surrounded by motifs of a tree, blackbirds, a house, a dog and flowers, in a glazed wood frame
28.9 x 30.2cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.269 for a discussion of this sampler.
Catalogue Note
It is likely that this sampler was worked by Lucy Collett of Little Rissington, a hamlet near Bourton on the Water, around the age of six.