A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY JEFFERY EDWARD MICHELMORE, C.1807

worked with polychrome silk floss with petit point on a fine gauze ground, with a prayer flanked by flowers and butterflies, above central motifs of urns with flowers and peacocks between two church buildings, with a flower and vine border, in a verre eglomise glazed ebonised frame

16 x 16cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.100 for a discussion of this sampler.