Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 587
A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £550
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Description
A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY ANN ORR SHERWOOD, IN NORWICH SCHOOL STYLE
worked with coloured silks on a linen ground in chain and stem stitches with a pair of flowers, a stag, a virtuouse verse, urns a peacock and birds in trees, in a free-hand floral border and unusual geometric lozenge spandrels, signed and dated 'Ann Orr Sherwood Aged 12 Years Mansfield 1812', in a later glazed Hogarth type frame
30.8 x 32cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.112 for a discussion of this sampler.