A RARE WILLIAM AND MARY NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER
A RARE WILLIAM AND MARY NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER
BY OR FOR MARY HUNT
worked with polychrome silks on a undyed linen ground with various stitches including running, cross, Algerian eye, satin, chain and buttonhole with free-hand rows of flowers and a central purse or bourse, above a psalm, signed and dated 'Mary Hunt Was Born The 14th of September 1693', in a later glazed ebonised frame
47.4 x 21.3cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp. 160-61 for a discussion of this sampler.
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A RARE WILLIAM AND MARY NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER
BY OR FOR MARY HUNT
worked with polychrome silks on a undyed linen ground with various stitches including running, cross, Algerian eye, satin, chain and buttonhole with free-hand rows of flowers and a central purse or bourse, above a psalm, signed and dated 'Mary Hunt Was Born The 14th of September 1693', in a later glazed ebonised frame
47.4 x 21.3cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp. 160-61 for a discussion of this sampler.
Estimate
Time, Location
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