A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with polychrome silks with cross stitch on a canvas ground, with two verses from Ann Taylor's poem 'My Mother', the word mother replaced with 'Dear Ann', above birds and stylised flowers with a central urn, below two figures and their dogs flanking a building, with a pink ribbon edge, in a glazed ebonised and gilt frame

16.1 x 22.6cm

Provenance

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