Antique Samplers

This is a beautiful example of a mid 18th century sampler from Saxony featuring unusual and illuminated alphabets, pattern bands and spot motifs including crowns and flowers. It has been executed in cross and double running stitches on a linen ground. Both the color and the condition are very good to excellent. The sampler measures…

Large sampler, possibly Dutch or French, with cross stitched images of a wheeled cart with produce, a woman carrying a yoke with buckets, an oriental scene with a stylized pagoda, a large bird and central floral basket with lilies. Excellent condition, stitched with silk on linen. 19″x20-1/2″ image, with frame 24″ x 26″ Further initials…

A spectacular Spanish sampler featuring many traditional motifs including a crowned lion, leaping stag, dogs both running and sitting, a cornucopia, a chicken, small vignettes of farms, a church, and a memorial, birds, baskets, flowers, a ewer, two alphabets and numerals stitched in both Arabic and Roman in the upper half. The lower half consists…

Stitched in cross stitch, red floss on linen, both in excellent condition, hem stitched on all four sides. The first measures 13″x 13″, and is dated 1860. The second features Greek key borders and is dated 1887.

Two French fashion plates, overlaid with real fabric and trims, 12″ x 15″ (frames add two inches). “La Mode Illustree”Bureaux du Journal56 rue Jacob, Paris

This sampler is very likely from Massachusetts and is framed in what could be the original frame (not pictured). It features two elegant houses at the top, three alphabets, a sawtooth satin stitched four sided border, and floral borders on the right and left. The verse is: Would you be wiseEach moment prize Stitches used…

Very finely stitched English sampler with alphabets and three verses at the top, with a scene featuring a large and elaborately detailed flower flanked by two enormous butterflies, within a four sided floral and Greek key border. The verses are: Come down sweet Jesus from aboveAnd feed my soul with heavenly love Remember Time will…

Probably English, this sampler features a “geode” bird (distinctive style seen on samplers made in England, The Netherlands, and America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries). The bird is flanked by flowers and hearts and surrounded by an extremely unusual four sided border of flying cherubs. The condition is fair, the color very…

A Scottish sampler stitched with wool threads on hand woven wool cloth, consisting of a series of alphabets, numerals and family initials including some illuminated initials and an impressive mansion house at the bottom. Stitches used are cross, eyelet, double running and counted satin. Condition is fair with some thread loss. The sampler measures 8-3/4″…

“Mama and Papa”, 10-1/2″ x 11″ (with the frame 13-1/2″ x 13″) and “AMH FHB TNH”, 11-1/2″ x 11″th frame 13-3/4″ x 13-3/4″), very good condition, with minor stains and wear.

Possibly Scottish, this adorable little sampler in very good condition features the phrase FEAR GOD, worked in eyelet stitch as its main focal point. Stitched on linen with fine wool threads, it is executed in shades of green, gold, red, rose, beige and brown with four rows of alphabets above the foreboding verse, with her…

Droughtville Forest 1807 This is a very unusual Irish sampler. The top third could pass as Scottish with the illuminated alphabets and beautiful, delicate double running stitch motifs. An unusual band of ten lozenges is stitched under the alphabets, each with a different petit point motif within in. The lower half of the sampler is…