TWO SCOTTISH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
£303
Auction: Day One: 17 May 2023 | From 11:00
Description
worked in silk on linen, the first with a wide band of stylised tulips above two reserves with bible passages, over a central fruiting tree, figures, cherubs, animals, and flowering plants, above a large house flanked by birds, flower baskets, in a painted faux rosewood frame; the second worked in silk on linen with a central four stanza hymn 'Why should we start, and fear to die?' by Isaac Watts, in a field filled with birds, insects, flowers, and trees, signed Sarah Ann Girm and dated June 16th 1831, inside a pink carnation border, in a cream mount and ebonised frame
Dimensions
41cm x 42.5cm & 40.5cm x 40.5cm respectively