A RARE LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK DARNING SAMPLER

A RARE LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK DARNING SAMPLER

BY MARY PILGRIM AND MARIA BACON

finely worked on a fine gauze ground, with a freehand floral garland with pattern darn details, enclosing eight hand-woven darns, each of a different pattern, signed and dated '1817 Mary Pilgrim Maria Bacon Waton', in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

36.5 x 31.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.72 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

This is an extremely rare example of a work stitched by two girls.