AN ITALIAN NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

AN ITALIAN NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

LATE 17TH CENTURY

worked with metallic threads, coloured spun silk and laces with various stitches including, couching, French knots and long and short on a fine canvas ground, depicting 'Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows with Arma Christi', Mary with seven silver swords in her back and surrounded by the instruments of the Passion: the crown of thorns, cross, chalice, dice, cockerel and purse of silver, the base with Latin text, in a later glazed gilt frame

28.5 x 40cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.144 for a discussion of this sampler.