A LARGE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A LARGE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

C.1830-40

worked with cross and long stitch, with polychrome silks on linen ground, decorated with a large bird, possibly a capercaillie, two dogs, two tabby cats seated on cushions, and a tiger and a lion, with baskets of flowers, trees and crowns around a religious verse, in a later glazed gilt and wood frame

61.5 x 34cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.152 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

For a similar sampler, see the Goodhart Collection at Montacute House.