A VICTORIAN BEADWORK PICTURE

A VICTORIAN BEADWORK PICTURE

MID-19TH CENTURY

worked with colourful beads on a linen ground, with a flower border of roses and forget-me-nots, decorated with two birds above a crown, flanking a colourful urn of flowers and a parrot on a branch flanked by trees, the centre with the inscription 'Sarah Wakenell born September the 29th 1845 -', in an ebonised and gilt frame, together with a small needlework picture, worked with polychrome silks on a gauze ground, with cross and satin stitch, with a zigzag border, decorated with flowers, butterflies and birds around a tree motif, the centre with a verse, in a glazed wood frame (2)

14.5 x 14cm and 15.7 x 11.4cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.180 and p.205 for a discussion on these samplers.