- Needlework Sampler, “Caroline Riggs’ Work Aged 7 Years,” worked
in silk threads on a loosely woven linen ground stitched with numerous
motifs including a row of alphabets, potted flowering plant, a tree with
alphabet letter “fruit,” a man, lady with parasol, dog, peacock, house
with fence and tree, birds, and butterflies, enclosed in sawtooth and
geometric strawberry vine borders, (fraying, toning, fading), 15 x 18 in.,
in a mahogany veneer frame.
$1,000-1,500
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Quaker School Needlework Sampler, “Mary Knight 1819,” Burlington
County, New Jersey, wrought with silk threads on a linen ground
stitched with a rosebud and leaf stem vine surrounding a pious verse
flanked by stylized man and woman Indian figures, and a pair of
doves and assorted potted flowers, bowls of fruit, and geometric floral
devices, (toning, fading), 17 x 19 in., in a period ripple-carved frame.Literature: See Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers, Pictorial
Needlework 1650-1850, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993, vol. 2, p. 478.
The distinctive border on this sampler is the same border as pictured
in Ring’s book. Ring writes, “...the most consistent identifiable motif of
the Burlington County Quaker samplers is a rose-vine border in which
a leaf tendril on one side and a rosebud stem on the other give the
appearance of a double vine.”
$1,000-1,50062 additional information and photos at http://www.skinnerinc.com
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