A SMALL EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK ORPHAN'S PILLOWCASE SAMPLER

A SMALL EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK ORPHAN'S PILLOWCASE SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS

worked with monochrome silk floss on a cotton ground with cross stitch with a multitude of spot motifs including: lions, flowers, birds, urns of flowers, 'ea' in a lozenge and stars, inscribed with a verse and 'Fear God' and 'Honor the Queen', in a glazed mahogany frame

17.4 x 16.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.87 for a discussion of this sampler.