A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with polychrome silk floss on an organza ground, mainly in cross stitch, with a farewell message as a verse, above flowering trees, birds, two gauntlets and a heart with a cross, with the inscription 'from BL to MG', in a zigzag, cross and diamond border, with a deliberately frayed ribbon edge, in a later glazed ebonised frame

15.6 x 20.9cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.199 for a discussion of this sampler.