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Maker: Unidentified
Spot motif sampler embroidered in polychrome silks, and silver and silver-gilt metal thread with forty detached geometrical, floral, and heraldic motifs, including the arms of the Chichester family of Arlington, Devon, and initials MC
Linen spot motif sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in tent, cross, long-armed cross, back, chain, eyelet, rococo and faggot stitch with pulled work. Silver and silver-gilt thread is worked in braid and interlacing stitches, and there is laid and couched work with one spangle.Three of the edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge with a single blue line on the right side. The decoration comprises some forty detached motifs with additional small panels of metal thread stitching techniques and the initials 'MC' worked in faded pink silk in the top left corner. The 'spots' are geometric, or stylized floral, or a combination of both, some worked as an all-over diaper pattern. In the centre there is a shield of arms of the Chichesters of Arlington, Devon.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 42.25 cm
Length: 17 in
Width: 27 cm
Width: 11.1/8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Early-Mid#
Circa
1620
CE
-
Circa
1640
CE
Probably worked by Mary (b. 1608), daughter of Amyas Chichester; or Mary (b. 1615) or Margaret (b. 1619), daughters of Henry Chichester of Arlington Devon
Embroidery composed of silk ( red, blue, green, yellow, faded pink) silver metal thread silver-gilt metal thread
Weaving
: Linen spot motif sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in tent, cross, long-armed cross, back, chain, eyelet, rococo and faggot stitch with pulled work. Silver and silver-guilt thread is worked in braid and interlacing stitches, and there is laid and couched work with one spangle. Three of the edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge with a single blue line on the right side.
Embroidering
Inscription present: embroidered in light pink
Accession number: T.2-1928
Primary reference Number: 110549
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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