£260
An interesting selection of bijouterie: a charming early 19th century needlework sampler, 'Elizabeth Sudell - March 9th 1822 - Woodfold Park'* (unframed); a framed wall-hanging picture in relief depicting a countryside scene with 1906 note recording its purchase from the estate of the Oxford academic, T.H. Grose; a filigree silver-mounted scent bottle with its original shagreen case; four leather-bound miniature books including 'Daily Food for Christians' (mid-19th century) and 'Small Rain upon the Tender Herb'; six Firmin & Sons brass buttons with the legend 'Fidelis et Constans'. (sampler 14cm x 11.5cm)
* The sampler is believed to be the work of the fourteen-year-old, Elizabeth Sudell (b. 1808), daughter of the Blackburn cotton magnate and philanthropist, Henry Sudell. When she was nineteen, her father's business collapsed. Just before the story broke, ashamed of the enormous debts caused by over-bullish speculation in the Continental and American cotton markets, the family left Woodfold Park bankrupt under cover of darkness in 1827.
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