Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 594
AN EARLY GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £1000
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Description
AN EARLY GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY SARAH FREEMAN, ATTRIBUTED TO THE NORWICH SCHOOLS
worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with alphabets, numerals, a verse, lions, topiary trees and octagons filled with urns of flowers, flanked by free-hand crewel work urns of scrolling flowers, signed and dated 'Sarah Freeman 1762', in a late glazed wood frame
31 x 24cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.110 for a discussion of this sampler.