Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 753
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £300
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Description
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY ELIZABETH SHELDON
worked with brightly coloured silks on a linen ground in cross stitch, with a house, trees, baskets of fruit, urns of flowers, sheep, birds, a butterfly, rabbits and swans, with a verse and signed and dated 'Elizabeth Sheldon Ring aged 9 years 1848', with a Greek key border, in a glazed simulated rosewood frame
36 x 28.7cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.24 for a discussion of this sampler.