Antique Samplers

This English sampler features an impressive stone mansion with mullioned windows at the top, flanked by beautiful butterflies, flowers, and fruit baskets. A four sided floral borders encloses the sampler and a verse titled “Messiah”. Hark a glad voice the lonely desert cheers Prepare the way a God a God appears A God a God…

MARY SHERWOOD 1726 This museum quality sampler was made with an enormous variety of minute stitches and retains its original vivid color on both the front and the back. It has been professionally cleaned and conserved and has been framed between sheets of conservation glass to display the remarkable reversible and unfaded stitching on the…

A Scottish sampler executed with wool and silk on linen, featuring many traditional Scottish needlework motifs including an arcaded pansy band across the top, illuminated letters, family initials, peacocks, “stacked” trees, and a fine stone mansion house. A soldier and a woman flank the house with birds, crowns and plants around them as well as…

A rare Irish sampler, stitched on linen with silk and wool threads. The linen has a dark horizontal line every ten threads. The stylized four sided floral and vine border surrounds two rows of unusually stylized alphabets, followed by two rows of cursive alphabets, above an eight line verse: Sweet to look inward and attend…

Very finely stitched sampler (probably English) with a petit point multi floral border surrounding floral motifs, including a ribboned bouquet. The verse: See the kind shepherd Jesus standsand calls his sheep by nameGathers the feeble in his armsand feeds each tender lamb The detail in this sampler is extraordinary as hopefully the photos will show.…

British pictorial needlework sampler stitched with silk on a linen ground, with two rows of alphabets and numerals at the top followed by a pictorial band with potted plants, trees, and dogs.  There is a four-line verse surrounded by stylized satin stitched flowers above a brick house flanked by elaborate trees, a large tiger, and…

This finely stitched English sampler is executed in cross, petit point, and counted satin stitches in silk on a fine linen ground. Adam and Eve are positioned beneath the tree of life surrounded by beasts of the field: goats, cows, sheep, horses. The sampler measures 12″x19-1/2″, with the frame the piece measures 16″ x 23″. …

This English sampler is the most funky sort I’ve ever seen with the main characters having electric hair and seeming to play toss the ball with apples.

Early English band sampler signed and dated (Mary Wilson born 1711), worked with silk and fine metal wire on linen in cross, Algerian eye, double running stitches and freehand spirals of silver metal, with pattern bands, alphabets, and a pair of “boxers” flanking a chain stitched heart filled with coiled wire medallions. Color and condition…

t is in excellent condition apart from four small dark spots clearly visible in the photos, and was de-accessioned from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stitches used are cross, counted satin, buttonhole, stem, bullion, and Algerian eyelet. 13-1/2″ x 7″, unframed.

Possibly an altar cloth, conservation mounted, in excellent condition: textile measures 22″x22″, with the frame and mounting 33″x33″.

This English silkwork sampler is stitched in a variety of stitches with a meandering floral border. The condition is very good, no stains, no stitch loss (other than to a few spots where there are small holes, that have been backed with matching linen so they are barely noticeable), the colors good and strong and…