刺绣带取样器 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	刺绣带取样器
品名（英）	Embroidered band sampler
入馆年号	1957年，57.122.367
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Esther French【1670 至 1770】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1684
创作地区
分类	刺绣纺织品（Textiles-Embroidered）
尺寸	24 1/4 × 7 5/8 英寸 (61.6 × 19.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	带状采样器由沿着亚麻基础织物缝合的刺绣图案的水平行（"带状"）组成。缝在带式采样器上的许多图案可以追溯到16世纪的图案书，通常包括水果、花卉和几何图案的描绘。抽样者包括花卉和几何图案的乐队，此外还有一个乐队，其中包括"拳击手"，男性人物在花卉图案的侧面，手持"奖杯"，在本例中是一朵花。拳击手的形象来源于情人向心爱的人献花的主题，这在许多16世纪的图案书中都可以找到采样器上包括名字Esther French和1684年，大概是制作者的名字和她完成工作的年份。她可能是英国威尔特郡瓦明斯特的埃丝特·弗兰奇（有时写作"海丝特"），1670年11月25日出生。当她完成采样器时，这将使她十三四岁。埃丝特出生于一个服装商家庭（制造或销售布料的专业人士），并嫁入了瓦明斯特的另一个服装家万西家族。
介绍（英）	Band samplers are composed of horizontal rows ("bands") of embroidered patterns stitched along the linen foundation fabric. Many of the patterns stitched onto band samplers can be traced to sixteenth-century pattern books, and often include depictions of fruit, flowers, and geometric patterns. The sampler includes bands of floral and geometric patterns, in addition to a band that includes "boxers," male figures who flank a floral motif and hold a "trophy," in this case a flower. The figure of the boxer is derived from the motif of a lover offering a flower to his beloved, which is found in a number of sixteenth-century pattern books. Included on the sampler is the name Esther French and the year 1684, presumably the name of the maker and the year in which she completed her work. She may have been Esther French (sometimes written as "Hester") of Warminster, Wiltshire, England, who was born on November 25, 1670. This would make her thirteen or fourteen years old when she completed her sampler. Esther was born into a family of clothiers (professionals who make or sellcloth) and married into the Wansey family, another family of clothiers in Warminster.