Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 775
A VICTORIAN FOLK ART WOOLWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £420
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Description
A VICTORIAN FOLK ART WOOLWORK SAMPLER
BY MARY GREEN
worked with crewel work with polychrome wools on a canvas ground, with various stitches, including: cross, petit point and tent, with alphabets, numbers and lovehearts, above a verse 'Compassion' from William Shenstone's 'Pastoral Ballad', above a whitewashed house flanked by rambling flowers, signed and dated 'Mary Green's work aged 6 years 1884', in a later glazed ebonised frame
37.7 x 31.6cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.26 for a discussion of this sampler.