Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 797
A GEORGE IV IRISH NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £700
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Description
A GEORGE IV IRISH NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY ANN ORR OF CLONTARF SCHOOL
worked with coloured silks on a fine linen ground in cross-stitch and with bullion knots with bunches of grapes above a school house, with a fence, shrubs and a flock of birds, with two verses, baskets of fruit, birds, crowned initials and signed and dated 'Clontarf School, Ann Orr, December 1827', with a gillyflower quincunx border, in a glazed ebonised frame
41.9 x 44cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.230, for a discussion of this sampler.