An early Victorian needlework sampler by Sarah Lowis, dated September 7th 1847, embroidered with a 'Register of the Issue if Richard and Agness Lowis', worked in coloured threads on cream ground, the text within a pictorial reserve of foliage, flowers and household emblems, framed and glazed, 54 x 48cm overall; together with a raised- and beadwork fragment of a basket of flowers, 19th century, later backed, framed and glazed, 31cm square overall; and another small petit point needlework picture, of birds on a branch Provenance: Private Collection from a Grade II listed Country House, Oxfordshire