A NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

A NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

POSSIBLY SCOTTISH, LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY

worked with coloured silk floss with a variety of stitches, including: cross, double running, satin and eyelet, on an undyed linen ground, with bands of flowers with Florentine flame stitch panels and uncompleted boxer figures, with raised couched details, the base partially signed 'Margaret ....Ms', with pairs of family initials, in a later glazed ebonised frame

116.2 x 19.5cm

Provenance

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