A GEORGE III SAMPLER,
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£100 - £200
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Hammer price:
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£320 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
dated 1796, worked with stylized flowers, trees, birds, and a house, in a simple molded stained-wood frame, 19.5cm x 19.5cm, and another sampler, worked with a verse above a register of birds perched in the branches of trees, "Grace Elliott... 1770", 34cm x 20.5cm, in a later ebonized frame.
The latter sampler is sold with a George III memorial pendant bleak brooch, of elliptical form, dedicated to the memory of Grace Elliott and dated 1788 - "Tis hard to part" (3)
