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Lot Essay
There is a very similar sampler dated 1704 in the National Museum, Nuremburg, Inv. GEW 2677a (50.5 x 42cm.). Dr. Leonie von Wilckens discovered the design in a Nuremberg pattern book dated 1704
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A RARE AND FINE SAMPLER
POSSIBLY GERMAN, 1707
of white linen, worked in coloured silks with a fountain within a landscape flanked by two shepherdesses , the centre with a medallion worked in fine metal threads and coloured silks, monogrammed LBM beneath a coronet above the date 1707, all in seed pearls, surrounded by spot motifs of finely worked flowers, a basket of flowers, a pear, an apple, moths, a peacock, the letters of the alphabet, to the base with darning samples --19 x 14in. (48.5 x 35.5cm.), possibly professional, framed and glazed, mounted on a walnut pole screen, the turned baluster column on splayed tripod supports terminating in claw and ball feet, circa 1900
POSSIBLY GERMAN, 1707
of white linen, worked in coloured silks with a fountain within a landscape flanked by two shepherdesses , the centre with a medallion worked in fine metal threads and coloured silks, monogrammed LBM beneath a coronet above the date 1707, all in seed pearls, surrounded by spot motifs of finely worked flowers, a basket of flowers, a pear, an apple, moths, a peacock, the letters of the alphabet, to the base with darning samples --19 x 14in. (48.5 x 35.5cm.), possibly professional, framed and glazed, mounted on a walnut pole screen, the turned baluster column on splayed tripod supports terminating in claw and ball feet, circa 1900
Exhibited
Royal School of Needlework Loan Exhibition, St. James's Palace, April 12-May 1951, Exhibit no. 91''A magnificent French sampler originally the property of Louis Quatorze containing the Royal cypher and date in seed pearls''.
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