Antique Samplers

Three horizontal rows of alphabets and numerals are stitched above a vibrant lower register featuring potted flowers, crowns, initials, and intricate geometric spot motifs, finely executed on linen with silk in cross, petit point, queen, and eyelet stitches over 32 ! Very good color, but poor condition. It has been conserved by and deaccessioned from…

Very finely stitched English sampler with the theme of the four seasons. A four sided strawberry border surrounds tendrils with flowers, leaves and birds springing from a large vase. Beneath the vase is a solidly satin stitched area, with trees, dogs, grasses and potted plants. The color remains vivid, and while there are areas of…

Possible Scottish band sampler stitched with fine wool on linen with a lovely geometric pattern band at the top followed by rows of alphabets, numerals, a verse and family initials. Stitches used are cross and eyelet. Very good color and condition, with some minor losses to the wool in some of the letters. 7-1/2″ x…

So many unusual and enigmatic features were left by Ann Carbutt on her sampler, made when she was sixteen years old, very likely in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The surname “Carbutt” is first found in Cheshire after the Norman Conquest. Variations of the name include “Garbutt” and “Garbit” and remain fairly common in the…

This is a spectacular English sampler elegantly executed in fine silk, containing a variety of finely worked motifs and text both in counted and free form techniques. The counted motifs are worked only through the wool tammy ground, the free stitching is worked through the cotton backing cloth as well. Motifs include birds in branches,…

This is a beautiful, colorful Scottish sampler stitched with a wonderful variety of stitches including satin, queen, eyelet, petit point, cross and back. A four sided arcaded floral border surrounds two alphabets, numerals and family initials in the upper register. The lower register consists of two horizontal floral bands including strawberries, stylized carnations and a…

Very finely stitched English sampler with an unusual row of alphabets and numerals across the top, followed by a pious verse: Love God with all yourSoul and Strength WithAll your Heart And MindAnd Love Your NeighbourAs Yourself Be faithfullJust and Kind Deal with Another AsYoud have Another DealWith You What YoureUnwilling to Receive Besure you…

A classic Scottish sampler featuring the well known “mystery Mansion”, this ambitious sampler also displays many other characteristic Scottish motifs including groups of family initials,and stacked evergreen trees with stags beneath them. At the top she has stitched “David and the Ark of the Convenant”, below which is a stylized depiction of an ark (a…

This English sampler is a memorial to her deceased brother. It is framed in an old- possibly original- mahogany frame with gilt slip and glass. The sampler is stitched with silk on linen, entirely in cross stitch. It is packed with motifs including a cathedral a lion, stars, birds, fruit baskets, fir trees, hearts, a…

English sampler featuring Adam and Eve under the Tree of Life flanked by flying cherubs. The scene beneath shows a shepherd and shepherdess with an enormous butterfly, and an enormously woolly sheep. To their sides are a windmill, dogs, a lion, birds, and potted flowers. The horizontal pattern band above them displays some very unusual…

At the age of ten years, Elizabeth Broomhead stitched this nearly pristine and colorful English sampler, which was never framed which accounts for its brilliant color and condition. Titled “On the Crucifixion of our Saviour and the Two Thieves” three crosses extend almost the entire length of the sampler with carefully plotted verses worked in…

This English sampler has been stitched on a linen canvas with wool threads, featuring naturalistic sprays of flowers, a large mansion house flanked by a farmer and his wife, a windmill on a hill, and two gorgeous enormous swans on either side of a miniature village scene. Below this is a larger section of the…