A LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SAMPLER

A LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SAMPLER

IN THE MANNER OF ACKWORTH SCHOOL, DATED '1818'

worked with brown silk floss on a linen ground with cross stitch with leaves, flowers , a central lozenge with a swan and with roses the buds highlighted in red, with a cur-medallion border, signed with initials 'EB in a crowned garland, in a later glazed frame, 31 x 33cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.39 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

There is a very similar sampler with initials 'SA' in Carrow House Museum, Norwich.