A RARE GEORGE I NEEDLEWORK ST CLEMENT DANES CHARITY SCHOOL BAND SAMPLER

A RARE GEORGE I NEEDLEWORK ST CLEMENT DANES CHARITY SCHOOL BAND SAMPLER

BY SUSANNAH WATSON

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with various stitches and techniques, including: cross, double running, satin and Algerian eye, with an alphabet and numerals, with 'boxer' type figures and flowers, a verse above crowns, an anchor flanked by a pair of swans, the base with a man and woman flanking an urn of flowers, inscribed, signed and dated 'Susannah Watson of the Charity School of St. Clements Danes aged Thirteen Years Begun This Sampler August The Third Anno Dom 1722', in a later glazed bird's eye maple frame

42.8 x 23cm

Provenance

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

Catalogue Note

A similar sampler from the Dr. Glaisher Bequest can be found in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.