Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 600
THREE NEEDLEWORK PANELS
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £1500
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Description
THREE NEEDLEWORK PANELS
17TH CENTURY
worked with polychrome silk floss on a plain weave undyed linen with brick, long and short, stem and tent stitch depicting the Story of Tobias, probably after the woodcuts by Bernard Salomon 'The True and lyvely Historyke Purtreatures of the Woll Bible', each panel in a stylised cartouche, with figures, animals, fish and buildings, possibly originally intended for a box, in later glazed ebonised moulded frames (3)
16 x 26.5cm (max)
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp. 54-55. for a discussion of these panels.