Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 230
λ A GEORGE IV WEST COUNTRY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £380
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Description
λ A GEORGE IV WEST COUNTRY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY MARY BUTTELD
worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with Moses and his brother, Aaron, the High Priest, his ritual garments detailed with the Breastplate of Judgement, resting on the ephod and the hem with belles, pomegranates and tassels, flanking a hymn by Isaac Watts, signed and dated 'Mary Butteld Ended this sampler in the Fourteenth year of her Age June 26 1820' and also inscribed 'Taught by Mary Picket In North Tawton', in a glazed rosewood frame
28 x 25.8cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.261 for a discussion of this sampler.