Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 291
A RARE LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK DARNING SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £1900
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Description
A RARE LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK DARNING SAMPLER
BY MARY PILGRIM AND MARIA BACON
finely worked on a fine gauze ground, with a freehand floral garland with pattern darn details, enclosing eight hand-woven darns, each of a different pattern, signed and dated '1817 Mary Pilgrim Maria Bacon Waton', in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame
36.5 x 31.2cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.72 for a discussion of this sampler.
Catalogue Note
This is an extremely rare example of a work stitched by two girls.