A GERMAN NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER

A GERMAN NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER

DATED '1792'

worked with coloured silks on a fine linen ground, with the Imperial double-headed eagle, symbols of Christ's Passion, an urn of flowers, a monkey offering an apple to a parrot in a tree, swans and with medial basting lines, with date and initials in an ornate cartouche 'APD 1792', unfinished, in a later glazed ebonised frame

20 x 37cm

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.