Name: Auction: GEORGIAN NEEDLEWORK HOUSE SAMPLER, WORKED BY JANE DIXSON, AGED 12 LATE 18TH/ EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 GBP
Availability: InStock

Day One | Wed 12th Nov at 10am | Lots 1 to 338

Day Two | Thurs 13th Nov at 10am | Lots 339 to 600

We are pleased to present the November 2025 edition of Five Centuries, held at our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Spanning the decorative arts from the 16th to the 20th century, this carefully curated sale offers a rich and varied selection of traditional British and European furniture, paintings, clocks, ceramics, sculpture and works of art.&nbsp;This edition features property from notable private collections, including Property of a Knightsbridge Residence; Select Pieces Previously at Kinross House; Property of a Belgravia Residence; Property from Westness House, Orkney; Property from the Ursula &amp; Gordon Bowyer Collection; a collection of paintings by Austrian artists; and a collection of early bronzes from The Bernard Kelly Collection.Buyer's Guide:

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finely stitched silk on linen, with a tall brick house in a garden of trees, floral vases and birds beneath a verse ‘Lord if I live let me be thine, thine also if I die, Come life, Come death, Let Heaven be mine, Amen’, above a scene of Adam and Eve below the apple tree with the serpent, the lower section with inscription ‘Jane Dixson her work aged 12 years, and taught by Mary Jissop in the year of our Lord God…’, all within a meandering berry border, in a gilt frame

GEORGIAN NEEDLEWORK HOUSE SAMPLER, WORKED BY JANE DIXSON, AGED 12

LATE 18TH/ EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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