Sale 9878
London, South Kensington
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6 July 2004
Price realised
GBP 502
Estimate
A sampler worked by Janet Linson Leven aged fourteen, worked in coloured silks to a linen ground, featuring a two-storey house above a flowering tree, reserved against a spot motif ground, including birds, flowering jardinières within a trailing floral border--16 x 11½ in. (41 x 29cm.), English, circa 1831, glazed and framed; and another alphabet sampler, as found (2)
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