A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY JANE CHRISTIE

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground in cross stitch with a country house, with oak trees, dogs, stags above floral sprays, a verse 'On Virtue' and a pair of arbours with baskets of fruit, signed and dated 'Jane Christie Her Work Anno Domini 1798', in a later glazed bird's eye maple frame

46.5 x 48.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.29 for a discussion of this sampler.