AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY FRENCH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY FRENCH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH SAUBERE

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with alphabets, the Lord's prayer, baskets of flowers, a tree and numerals, signed and dated 'Fait par moi Elizabeth Saubere agee de 9 ans rt 9 mois a Lonare lan 1720', in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

47 x 21cm

Provenance

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