Name: Auction: SCOTTISH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, WORKED BY MARGRET KERR DATED 1811
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 3780 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Lots 1 - 335 | 04 September at 10am

Lots 336 - 597 | 05 September at 10am

Sale number: 808The September 2024 edition of our Five Centuries auction features Georgian, Regency and Victorian furniture as well as an impressive Elizabethan Oak Livery Cupboard, a fine selection of carpets, and works of art. This edition also includes a wonderful range of British and European paintings including a mature work by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (lot 378) and two remarkable drawings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (lots 386 and 387).Notable collections include Select Items From the Estate of the Late Lady Penn (lots 336 - 365) and the Private Collection of the Late David Hutcheson, sold in aid of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.stmarysmusicschool.co.uk/">St Mary’s Music School</a> Trust Ltd.&nbsp;

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in silk on linen, with bible verse Proverbs 31:30, ‘FAVOUR IS DECEITFUL AND BEAUTY IS VAIN BUT A WOMAN THAT FEARETH THE LORD SHE SHALL BE PRAISED’, above a house and garden on a field filled with birds, flowers, baskets, urns and animals, with parents' names and signed ‘MARGRET KERR SOWED [SIC] THIS SAMPLER OCTOBER 7, 1811’, within a carnation border, in a period giltwood frame

SCOTTISH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, WORKED BY MARGRET KERR

DATED 1811

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