A GEORGE IV IRISH NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV IRISH NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY ANN ORR OF CLONTARF SCHOOL

worked with coloured silks on a fine linen ground in cross-stitch and with bullion knots with bunches of grapes above a school house, with a fence, shrubs and a flock of birds, with two verses, baskets of fruit, birds, crowned initials and signed and dated 'Clontarf School, Ann Orr, December 1827', with a gillyflower quincunx border, in a glazed ebonised frame

41.9 x 44cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.230, for a discussion of this sampler.