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Production: Unidentified
Sampler embroidered with detached motifs including sprigs, cupids, baskets, birds, Solomon's Temple.
Linen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. All the edges are hemmed.The detached motifs are a cross between traditional one's (sprigs, cupids, baskets, birds, Solomon's Temple) and those illustrating Portuguese daily life, such as the many characters present worked on the sampler. One of the female figures is black and is carrying a basket on her head. The top left contains a pastoral scene, which unlike the other motifs, is worked in a naturalistic style. The border is framed by an incomplete stylized floral border. The makers' initials 'M:IC' are inscribed beneath a coronet over pierced hearts and birds on a branch.
History note: Purchased from Miss Peacock
Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest
Length: 28.25 cm
Length: 11.1/4 in
Width: 51 cm
Width: 20.1/4 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
19th Century, Early-Mid#
After
1801
CE
-
Before
1860
CE
Weaving
: Linen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. All the edges are hemmed.
Embroidering
Accession number: T.118-1938
Primary reference Number: 110849
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sampler" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/110849 Accessed: 2024-12-18 09:06:19
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