A NEEDLEWORK TEMPERANCE SAMPLER

A NEEDLEWORK TEMPERANCE SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with polychrome silk floss on a linen ground, with cross-stitch, decorated with motifs from a public house, including: a tankard, wine glasses, a beer barrel, a bagatelle board and a tobacco honesty box, with a verse 'Sine Adams Days, As I am told, Such Beer and ale, Were never sold, Walk in and view, Mr Bowrings hall, A cordial welcome, Here for all', in a glazed ebonised frame

28.8 x 31cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.172 for a discussion of this sampler.