AN 18TH CENTURY GERMAN NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

AN 18TH CENTURY GERMAN NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

DATED '1765'

worked with polychrome silk floss on a canvas ground, with various techniques and stitches, the top section with a central flower and leaf wreath, with the initials and date 'CFL den 1765', above the lamb of God, a large parrot perched on a cherry branch, a pastoral scene of a shepherd and shepherdess with their sheep, above a depiction of Christ on the crucifix, surrounded by the instruments of passion, the lower section with alphabets, numbers and crowns, and pattern rows, in a glazed ebonised and gilt frame

108 x 27cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.240 for a discussion of this sampler.