Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 751
A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £500 - £700 | Hammer £500
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Description
A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY ANN MIDDLETON
worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with a band of text 'If all Mankind woldhve in mutual love, This World would much resemble that above', with Solomon's temple flanked by birds in trees and with two uniformed soldiers promenading with well dressed ladies, with a further verse above a huntsman on horseback with a dog chasing a deer, signed and dated 'Ann Middleton Aged 10 1799', in a later glazed bird's eye maple frame
41.3 x 28.7cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.210-211 for a discussion of this sampler.