Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 329
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK INDIAN SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £150
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Description
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK INDIAN SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY CATHERINE DAVIES AND RUTH
worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, in cross stitch, with alphabets and three verses, inscribed 'Marked by Catherine Davies ad Ruth for Miss tucker on her departure from India and presented by them in the name of all Mrs Schaffters Scholars. January 1840', in a later glazed ebonised frame
42 x 33cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.179 for a discussion of this sampler.