A NEEDLEWORK MEMENTO SAMPLER

A NEEDLEWORK MEMENTO SAMPLER

BY ANN JONES, EARLY TO MID-19TH CENTURY

worked with coloured crewel wools on a linen ground with cross stitch an alphabet and spot motifs, an ostrich, colourful trees, a stag and urns of flowers, with a verse, signed 'Anne Jones' and 'Caroline Pace for get we not', in a later glazed pine frame

31.2 x 33cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.115 for a discussion of this sampler.