Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 794
A SMALL AND RARE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £800
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Description
A SMALL AND RARE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY MARGARET BINYON
worked with polychrome silks on a tammy ground in cross stitch, with medallions, birds, urns of flowers and a squirrel in a treem with a virtuous verse, signed and dated 'Margaret Binyon 1789', in a later glazed ebonised frame
15.1 x 21.5cm
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.
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