Name: Auction: TWO SCOTTISH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1197 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Day One: 16 November 2022 | From 10:00

Day Two: 17 November 2022 | From 10:00

Our November 2022 edition of&nbsp;Five Centuries&nbsp;featured an enticing range of furniture, paintings and works of art.&nbsp;Highlights include a William IV 'Jupe’s Patent' dining table, a Brussels historical tapestry from the story of Alexander the Great, the Sydney Cove Medallion by Josiah Wedgwood, a 16th Century Spanish armorial tapestry, an Etruscan bronze figure of a warrior, a Roman fresco of a swan, the Dyers' Company Ushak Carpet and more.&nbsp;&nbsp;The sale also features several important private collections, including select items from Careston Castle, The Bellamy Collection, The Collection of the late Sir Richard Shepherd MP, a Scottish Single Owner Collection of Samplers, Property of the Earls of Kintore and a Collection of Clowes &amp; Sons Victorian Marionettes.

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silk on linen, one worked by Margret Miller, Strathmiglo, dated 1816, depicting a central building with three pointed roofs, possible the Temple of Solomon with a person at the door, on a field with birds, flowerpots, and a reserve with a thistle and motto 'I HAVE POUER TO DEFEND MYSELF AND OFEND OTHERS [sic]' within a strawberry border, framed; the other by Helen Johnstone, Newbattle School, dated May 23rd 1843, with three alphabets, family initials, a house, and motto 'I love the Sacred book of God/ No other can its place supply/ it points me to the saint's abode/ It gives me wings and bids me fly', within a wide meandering flowering vine border, framed

TWO SCOTTISH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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