Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 628
A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1900
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Description
A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER
BY MARY PRICKMAN
worked with polychrome silks on an undyed linen ground with various stitches including: running, Algerian eye, long armed cross, reversed Italian cross and detached buttonhole, with with bands of flowers and 'boxer' figures with deer, the central flower augmented with the letter 'P', signed 'Mary Prickman', in a later glazed ebonised frame
56 x 23.6cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp.176-77 for a discussion of this sampler.