Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 231
A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK ADAM AND EVE SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600
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Description
A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK ADAM AND EVE SAMPLER
BY MARY ANN LOCKWOOD
worked with polychrome silks on a tammy ground, in cross and satin stitch with a row of initialled crowns, the centre one for George III, above a verse, with pairs of birds, dogs, urns of flowers, the base with Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge flanked by a pair of angels, signed and dated 'Mary Ann Lockwood Her Work Aged 10 Years 1798', in a later glazed ebonised frame
42.5 x 30.7cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.130 for a discussion of this sampler.