Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 475
A REGENCY IRISH NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £800 - £1,200
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Description
A REGENCY IRISH NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY JANE ROBINSON
worked with polychrome silks in cross, satin and eyelet stitch on a linen ground, with brightly coloured alphabets, one in the mythical 'Holbein' stitch, and numerals, with bands of flowers within a scrolling leaf and flower border, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Neale Mountmelick School Anno Dom 1815', in a later glazed ebonised frame
58.8 x 32.8cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.50 for a discussion of this sampler.