An oval map sampler of "England and Wales" worked in coloured chenille, the names in black silks, against an ivory satin ground, initialled "MH" at the bottom within a lyre, framed with coloured silk embroidery forming floral festoons around the top, shrubs and flower and fruit filled cornacopaie in the the lower corners--23 x 25¾in. (58 x 64cm.), circa 1820, in glass mount, framed

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An oval map sampler of "England and Wales" worked in coloured chenille, the names in black silks, against an ivory satin ground, initialled "MH" at the bottom within a lyre, framed with coloured silk embroidery forming floral festoons around the top, shrubs and flower and fruit filled cornacopaie in the the lower corners--23 x 25¾in. (58 x 64cm.), circa 1820, in glass mount, framed

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