A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ROSE KENTISH

worked with coloured silks in various stitches, including: satin, chain, cross and buttonhole, on a tammy ground, with alphabets, text from the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes and with scrolling leaves and flowers flanking a heart framing words from Proverbs 23, verse 6, and text from the 72nd verse of Psalm 119, signed and dated 'Rose Kentish 1752', in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

20 x 20cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.117 for a discussion of this sampler.