Lot 968

Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Thursday 20th of April 2023

A Victorian woolwork sampler with alphabet and motto "The great enemies to tranquility are vice which poisons and disturbs the mind with bad passions; superstition which fills it with imaginary terror; idleness which loads it with tediousness and disgust" by Eleanor Fawcett, aged 12 years, 1882, contained within the top of a walnut occasional table with plate glass top, raised on square tapered supports 41cm h x 36cm w x 35cm d