A RARE WILLIAM AND MARY NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

A RARE WILLIAM AND MARY NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

BY OR FOR MARY HUNT

worked with polychrome silks on a undyed linen ground with various stitches including running, cross, Algerian eye, satin, chain and buttonhole with free-hand rows of flowers and a central purse or bourse, above a psalm, signed and dated 'Mary Hunt Was Born The 14th of September 1693', in a later glazed ebonised frame

47.4 x 21.3cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp. 160-61 for a discussion of this sampler.