A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH ARROWSMITH

worked with colourful silks on a linen ground, with French verse, with bands of love hearts and strawberries, with a stag, rabbits, dogs, lions, trees, birds and bunches of grapes, signed 'Fait par Sarah Arrowsmith agee de 10 ans 1734', in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

30.1 x 22.5cm

Provenance

Bonhams, 7th May 2008, lot 375.

The Papillon Estate, Crowhurst Park, Sussex.

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.206 for a discussion of this sampler.