A MID-19TH CENTURY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A MID-19TH CENTURY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

PROBABLY GERMAN OR DUTCH

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with a girl skipping, birds perched on branches, a chair, a hanging shelf with china cups, a cockerel, a lantern and a cross, with crowned cartouches containing the initials of the maker's close relatives, signed and dated with initials 'A M F 184', in a later glazed reeded frame

27.6 x 27.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.244 for a discussion of this sampler.