Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024

Lot 506

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

Estimate £150 - £200 | Hammer £189

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Description

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY WINTERFLOOD, DATED '1796'

finely worked in colours with alphabets and numerals above the inscription 'Mary Winterflood Finished This Sampler in the Year MDCCXCVI' above a house with mica windows flanked by vases of flowers, a windmill, a miller and a bird on a gate inside a meandering foliate border, in a glazed gilt frame

31.2 x 29.6cm

Provenance

Purchased from Mac Humble Antiques, 11 Queen Street, Bath, on 13th December 1982 for £290.

Glen House, Bruton.