A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY ANN DAVIES

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with two houses, one titled 'The Tabernacle' with urns of flowers, a ship, birds, a castle and a deer, signed and dated with a verse 'When I was young and in my prime to needle work I was inclind when I am dead And out of mind look in my sampler my Name you will fin Mary ann davies Aged 11 Made in the year of our Lord 1832', in a glazed mahogany frame

48.5 x 30cm

Provenance

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