A LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER ATTRIBUTED TO THE SCARR FAMILY

A LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER ATTRIBUTED TO THE SCARR FAMILY

DATED '1819'

possibly worked by a novice, in polychrome silks and wool on a coarse linen ground, with alphabets, numerals, a text, urns of flowers and birds, in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

34.5 x 24.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.56 for a discussion of this sampler.