Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 345
A NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £380
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Description
A NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with a view of a grand red brick house titled 'Back Front of Mansion and Trent Park London', with an enclosed fence, with flowers and two figures walking dogs, in a strawberry border, in a later glazed ebonised frame
25.2 x 33cm
Provenance
Mac Humble Antiques, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, 8th July 1994.
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.182 for a discussion of this sampler.
Catalogue Note
Trent House and Park was the home of Sir Richard Jebb, George III's favourite physician and in the early 20th century was owned by Sir Philip Sassoon and subsequently inherited by Sir Edward Sassoon, who entertained many notable guests at Trent House including Charlie Chaplin and Sir Winston Churchill.