Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 774
A LARGE AND RARE NEEDLEWORK SHIP SAMPLER
Estimate £500 - £700 | Hammer £600
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Description
A LARGE AND RARE NEEDLEWORK SHIP SAMPLER
BY DIENA COLE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
worked with coloured wools on a linen ground in cross and chain stitch with three ships, the largest with a man in the look-out, with a toast 'A health to the sick and honour to the brave, success to the lover and freedom to the slave', with pairs of houses, urns of flowers, dogs and Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge, signed and dated 'Diena Cole aged 10'
52.8 x 53cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.175 for a discussion of this sampler.