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A RARE AND FINE TAPESTRY SAMPLER
ENGLISH, 1737
in silver and coloured silks, the top monogrammed and dated MFV, heart motif, 1737 MC, the lower registers with a bird on a branch, a rose, a farmhouse, a lady in a dress with a silver stomacher, a black-hatted gentleman with a dog and a bird, RAM beneath a coronet, floral and geomterical patterns and urn of carnations--39½ x 3½in. (99 x 9cm.), glazed, in tortoiseshell veneer frame
ENGLISH, 1737
in silver and coloured silks, the top monogrammed and dated MFV, heart motif, 1737 MC, the lower registers with a bird on a branch, a rose, a farmhouse, a lady in a dress with a silver stomacher, a black-hatted gentleman with a dog and a bird, RAM beneath a coronet, floral and geomterical patterns and urn of carnations--39½ x 3½in. (99 x 9cm.), glazed, in tortoiseshell veneer frame
Provenance
Collection of Mr. G. Saville Seligman
Literature
Seligman, Saville G. and Talbot Hughes, Domestic Needlework, 1926, plate 3B.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.