Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 610
A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £500 - £700 | Hammer £2500
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Description
A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
ANONYMOUS, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH
worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with various stitches, with an alphabet, above a band of floral designs and Solomon's Porch flanked by flowers and with lions and deer, with further bands inscribed 'Fear God And Honour The King II', dated '174..', and signed 'IH' in a glazed Hogarth type frame
46 x 26cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.207 for a discussion of this sampler.