A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY CAVE

worked with polychrome silks and wools on a linen ground, with a cottage flanked by a pair of baskets of fruit, with a pair of recumbent deer flanking a pious verse, with parrots and flowers in a floral border, signed and dated 'Mary Cave 1821', in a later glazed ebonised frame

37.7 x 43.1cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 151, for a discussion of this sampler.