A NEEDLEWORK 'VALENTINE' SAMPLER

A NEEDLEWORK 'VALENTINE' SAMPLER

PROBABLY AMERICAN, DATED '1886'

worked with red and blue silk on a white cotton ground with cross stitch, with friendship verses, lovehearts and birds, with urns of flowers, inscribed 'For D. H. Cornell From Mary Silva', in a later glazed ebonised frame

45.3 x 48cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.238 for a discussion of this sampler.