A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS

worked with polychrome silks and chenille on a fine tiffany ground, with a manor house flanked by two trees, with a pair of rabbits and a bold floral border with roses and pinks, with a verse after Alexander Pope, signed with initials 'B . C', in a glazed wood frame

46 x 44cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.16 for a discussion of this sampler.