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Sampler
This sampler features embroidery in counted satin stitch, pattern darning, and double running stitch.
The fineness of detail suggests that this sampler is the product of a professional workshop, made to record patterns or to show to prospective customers. Decorative bands like the ones on the sampler appear on tunics as widely spaced stripes, both vertical and horizontal.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Maurice Nahman; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
5 1/2 x 10 13/16 x 1/16 in. (14 x 27.4 x 0.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1927
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
83.603