A GERMAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GERMAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

DATED '1732'

worked with coloured silks on a fine linen ground, with alphabets and numerals, above the date and a crowned monogram composed of crouched metallic thread in a split stitch wreath, with a vase of flowers, a dog and a peacock after a Sibmacher pattern, with eleven blocks of various stitches, including: Florentine, Gobelin, rice, Parisian and damask, in a later glazed mahogany frame

40.2 x 31cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.242 for a discussion of this sampler.