A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL MEDALLION SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL MEDALLION SAMPLER

ATTRIBUTED TO ELIZABETH PEASE (1770-1806) OF TRINITY LANE SCHOOL

with a configuration of motifs and half-medallions in rows decorated urns of flowers, birds, flowers with the dates '1785' and '1788' with a central diamond lozenge with initials 'E. P. 1788', unfinished in a later glazed ebonised frame

43 x 36cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.40 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

This sampler was associated with a number of items of the Pease, Robson, Backhouse and Mounsey families sold in 2008. The medallions in the upper left recall similar motifs on the earlier Quaker samplers of Sarah Harris and Elizabeth Pim. Elizabeth Pim is known to have come from County Laois and was related to Sarah Pim Grubb and by marriage to Sarah Grubb one of the founders of the Trinity Lane School.