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

Lot 765

λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £280

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Description

λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY THICKETT. C.1840-50

worked in a variety of stitches, including: cross, eyelet, satin, chain and split, on a canvas ground, depicting the Passion after Jesus has been speared, to the right the lamb of God and the rising sun, above a verse and an alphabet, in a glazed rosewood frame

43.5 x 44cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.258 for a discussion of this sampler.