Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 778
A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SAMPLER
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £700
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Description
A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SAMPLER
BY EMMA TOPHAM
worked with coloured silks in cross stitch on a linen ground with alphabets, numerals, a half-medallion with a tulip, birds, flowers a wreath inscribed 'God is Love', a tree and a dovecote, signed and dated 'Emma Topham Ackworth 1837', in a later glazed ebonised frame
32.5 x 26.7cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 32 for a discussion of this sampler.
Catalogue Note
Emma Topham worked two known samplers, both are inscribed Ackworth and dated 1837. One is at Ackworth school and the present lot is the other. Although Emma's sampler references Ackworth School motifs, she was not in fact a scholar at Ackworth.