A MINIATURE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A MINIATURE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

POSSIBLY SCOTTISH, DATED '1798'

worked with polychrome silk on a cotton ground, with cross stitch, drawn thread wear and coral stitch embellishments, with mirrored motifs of ducks, follies, bowls of fruit, crowns, with a central castle and a house, dated '1798' in a glazed simulated rosewood frame

14.1 x 13.8cm

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.

Catalogue Note

This sampler is very similar to one attributed to Isabella Donald of Aberdeen, c.1820, in Glasgow Museum. See Rebecca Quinton, 'Patterns of Childhood'.