IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110831 accession number: T.100-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. The sampler is divided into four sections. The first band contains some 33 detached motifs including birds (owl, peacock, parrot on a perch), coronets, crowns, flowers in a vase, fruit trees (one with two birds on it, one with two dogs below it) and a wreath with the initials 'CSD. The second and third bands depict crowns, three alphabets and numerals (1-8, 1-9, 1-13). The final band has about 20 repeat border designs worked. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110831 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1756 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1756 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: in value: 44