A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SAMPLER

ATTRIBUTED TO ACKWORTH SCHOOL, C.1800

worked with polychrome silks on a coarse linen ground in cross stitch with medallions decorated with birds, urns, a swan, leaves and flowers, signed with initials 'MK to EK', in a later glazed ebonised frame

31.2 x 45cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.44 for a discussion of this sampler.