A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY BURGESS

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with cross stitch with polychrome alphabets and numerals, with a strawberry border, with baskets of flowers flanking a virtuous verse, a pair of dovecotes and birds, trees and lions signed 'Mary Burgess Aged 12 Years', in a later glazed wood frame

30.5 x 29.9cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.? for a discussion on this sampler.