A RARE NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER

A RARE NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER

MID-17TH CENTURY

worked with coloured silk floss and metal thread on an undyed ground with various stitches including: double running, eyelet, satin, reversed Italian cross and plaited braid, with lozenges or diapers, with roses and other flowers, signed with initials 'AC', in a later glazed oak frame

52 x 15cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp.172-3 for a discussion of this sampler.