A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

BY MARY PRICKMAN

worked with polychrome silks on an undyed linen ground with various stitches including: running, Algerian eye, long armed cross, reversed Italian cross and detached buttonhole, with with bands of flowers and 'boxer' figures with deer, the central flower augmented with the letter 'P', signed 'Mary Prickman', in a later glazed ebonised frame

56 x 23.6cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp.176-77 for a discussion of this sampler.