TWO GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLERS

TWO GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLERS

BY HANNAH WOOD, DATED '1801' AND '1802'

both worked in black silk floss on a linen ground in cross stitch, both with alphabets and numerals and a verse, one inscribed 'Plaistow School', in later glazed ebonised frames (2)

28.8 x 32.2cm

Provenance

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

Catalogue Note

By repute discovered in the secret drawer of a bureau acquired from a house contents sale from the Quaker family of Doubleday of Coggeshall.