TWO INDIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

TWO INDIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

PROBABLY JESSORE, C.1860

both worked with cotton cross stitch on canvas ground, one with a printed label on the back 'All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness 3.16 Blandford St, Native Village School' and 'James, this is Timothy, verse 2 3.16, the school was in Joshor' and the other inscribed in pen on the back 'For Elizabeth, both in later glazed wooden frames (2)

27 x 28cm (max)

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.238 for a discussion of these samplers.