Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 786
A RARE EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £400
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Description
A RARE EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY MARY BIRCHALL
worked with red silk in cross stitch on a linen ground with alphabets and numerals, signed and dated 'Mary Birchall, Sidcot. 1838.', in a later glazed wood frame
17.2 x 32cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.38 for a discussion of this sampler.
Catalogue Note
Sidcot School was founded by the Society of Friends at Winscombe in Somerset in 1808. Mary Birchall was born in 1824 in Swansea, her father Thomas was a grocer and her mother, Elizabeth Bath, had been a scholar at Sicot in 1808.