Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 336
A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £550
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Description
A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY JANE BIRKETT
worked with pink silk floss on a tammy ground, in cross, satin and eyelet stitch with alphabets and numerals, titled 'England and Wales contain fifty two Counties', with a list of all the counties, within a strawberry border, signed and dated 'Jane Birkett Finished Oct. 1814', in a later glazed gilt frame
42.5 x 32.5cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.212 for a discussion of this sampler.