Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 686
A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £280
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Description
A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY JANE PARKIN
worked with coloured wools on a coarse linen ground, with an alphabet, numerals and with initials, possibly for family members in Scottish style, above a virtuous verse and Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge, with onlooking birds, animals, sun and moon and butterflies, signed and dated 'Jane Parkin Aged 14 Years 1822 Redworth', in a later glazed ebonised frame
40.9 x 41.5cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.133 for a discussion of this sampler.