A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY JANE OTTLEY

worked with brightly coloured silks on a linen ground, in cross, satin and eyelet stitch, with urns and baskets of flowers, a basket of fruit, a parrot and with a timber framed house with a gate and a deer, dog and a cherry tree, signed and dated 'Jane Ottley February 15 1816', in a glazed giltwood frame

31.3 x 21.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.27 for a discussion of this sampler.