Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 737
A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £450
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Description
A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY SARAH WITHAM, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH
worked in red and green silks in cross stitch on a linen ground, with alphabets, crowns, hearts, proverbs, biblical texts and the Lord's Prayer, signed 'Sarah Witham ended this sampler December the 19 I II, the year of our Lord 1739', in a later glazed ebonised wood frame
42.4 x 23.6cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.222-223 for a discussion of this sampler.