IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110549 accession number: T.2-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 17 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Linen spot motif sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in tent, cross, long-armed cross, back, chain, eyelet, rococo and faggot stitch with pulled work. Silver and silver-gilt thread is worked in braid and interlacing stitches, and there is laid and couched work with one spangle.Three of the edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge with a single blue line on the right side. The decoration comprises some forty detached motifs with additional small panels of metal thread stitching techniques and the initials 'MC' worked in faded pink silk in the top left corner. The 'spots' are geometric, or stylized floral, or a combination of both, some worked as an all-over diaper pattern. In the centre there is a shield of arms of the Chichesters of Arlington, Devon. object type: Spot motif sampler embroidered in polychrome silks, and silver and silver-gilt metal thread with forty detached geometrical, floral, and heraldic motifs, including the arms of the Chichester family of Arlington, Devon, and initials MC title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110549 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat of arms strawberry coat of arms strawberry TECHNIQUES ---------- Linen spot motif sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in tent, cross, long-armed cross, back, chain, eyelet, rococo and faggot stitch with pulled work. Silver and silver-guilt thread is worked in braid and interlacing stitches, and there is laid and couched work with one spangle. Three of the edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge with a single blue line on the right side. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1620 - 1640 creation date earliest: 1620 creation date latest: 1640 culture: 17th Century, Early-Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 42.25 dimension: Length units: in value: 17 dimension: Width units: cm value: 27 dimension: Width units: in value: 11.1/8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 692 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 741 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 692 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 370 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/t_2_1928_2_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 694 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_t_2_1928_2_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/t_2_1928_2_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 694 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_t_2_1928_2_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 369 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/27/large_T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1403 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/27/mid_T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 685 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.2-1928_1_201305_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/27/preview_T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 343 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/27/T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_mas.ptif height: 6496 pixels width: 4740 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/629/172/large_T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 1517 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/629/172/mid_T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 741 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/629/172/T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 3500 pixels width: 2362 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/629/172/preview_T_2_1928_1_201305_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 370 pixels width: 250 pixels