Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 281
A FINE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £950
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Description
A FINE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY ANN CARR
worked with polychrome silks on a fine gauze ground, in cross stitch, with birds and a squirrel in trees, urns of flowers, a farmer and his wife, with some Quaker style motifs with crowns and a swan, above Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge, the base with a country scene with a red brick country house and a segmented ground, perhaps indicating different crops, with a shepherd and shepherdess with their flock, in a honeysuckle border, with a pair of laurel wreaths signed and dated 'Ann Carr Her Work' and 'Aged 15 in 1806', in a glazed ebonised and gilt frame
37.6 x 32.6cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.128 for a discussion of this sampler.