A DUTCH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A DUTCH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

DATED '1811'

worked with coloured silk on a fine linen ground, with an abundance of motifs, including Adam and Eve flanked by a pair of crayfish, baskets of fruits, houses, a crowned pair of lions, figures holding grapes, a ship, signed and dated 'SMK 1811', in a later glazed ebonised frame

34.5 x 35cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.245, for a discussion of this sampler.