A 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY BRIGIDA VEZZOLI

worked with monochrome silk floss on a linen ground with cross stitch with alphabets and numerals, signed and dated 'Vezzoli Brigida fecet' anno 1871', in a later glazed ebonised frame

19.5 x 32.8cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.237 for a discussion of this sampler.