A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY MARY TATE

worked with coloured silks on a coarse linen ground with a variety of motifs and designs, with medallions with leaves and birds, a ship, a lozenge with a crown, lions and birds, a star, a view of York Boarding School, titled 'York bording Sohowl 1800', with two verses and signed twice, in a later glazed ebonised frame

39.5 x 39.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.43 for a discussion of this sampler.