λ A MID-19TH CENTURY FRENCH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

λ A MID-19TH CENTURY FRENCH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY JOSEPHINE CARIGUT

worked with coloured silks and wool on a linen ground, with an alphabet, numerals, birds, urns of flowers, bowls of fruit, an altarpiece and the Christogram 'IHS' and signed and dated 'Fait par Josephine Carigut agee de 10 ans il 27 Fevrier 1856 chez les dames de la presentation de Marie a Caranne', in a glazed rosewood frame

33.4 x 30.5cm

Provenance

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