Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021

Lot 745

A 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

Estimate £100 - £150 | Hammer £100

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Description

A 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY BRIGIDA VEZZOLI

worked with monochrome silk floss on a linen ground with cross stitch with alphabets and numerals, signed and dated 'Vezzoli Brigida fecet' anno 1871', in a later glazed ebonised frame

19.5 x 32.8cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.237 for a discussion of this sampler.