A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with various stitches, with an alphabet, above a band of floral designs and Solomon's Porch flanked by flowers and with lions and deer, with further bands inscribed 'Fear God And Honour The King II', dated '174..', and signed 'IH' in a glazed Hogarth type frame

46 x 26cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.207 for a discussion of this sampler.