A CONTINENTAL NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

A CONTINENTAL NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

PROBABLY LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with coloured silk floss on linen ground, with geometric and floral designs, with an alphabet, urns of flowers and birds, a pair of cypress trees, with the christogram 'IHS' and crowned initials, in a later glazed frame

77.7 x 38.8cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.237 for a discussion of this sampler.