A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY FITT

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with alphabets, crowns and a band of flowers above the Royal Coat of Arms and free-hand flowers issuing from a pair of urns around the Lord's Prayer , signed and dated 'Made by me Mary Fitt in the year 1731', in a glazed ebonised and giltwood frame

46.5 x 29cm

Provenance

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