Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 627
A RARE NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £750
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Description
A RARE NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER
MID-17TH CENTURY AND LATER
worked with polychrome silk floss on an undyed linen ground with running, double running, cross, long armed cross, braid couching, rococo, petit point, eyelet and ladder stitches with a grapevine, an uncomplete alphabet, a stag, a panel of acorns, a bird and geometric designs, in a later glazed ebonised frame
52.7 x 21cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp.156-57 for a discussion of this sampler.