Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 522
AN ITALIAN NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £750
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Description
AN ITALIAN NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
LATE 17TH CENTURY
worked with metallic threads, coloured spun silk and laces with various stitches including, couching, French knots and long and short on a fine canvas ground, depicting 'Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows with Arma Christi', Mary with seven silver swords in her back and surrounded by the instruments of the Passion: the crown of thorns, cross, chalice, dice, cockerel and purse of silver, the base with Latin text, in a later glazed gilt frame
28.5 x 40cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.144 for a discussion of this sampler.