$21,060
Chester County, Pennsylvania silk on linen needlework sampler , inscribed "Elizabeth H. Beale work 1832, Parents William + Elizabeth Beale, Mary Morris Rutherford teacher", worked in a variety of stitches in shades of green, gold, yellow, blue, white, and tan, with central verse surrounded by flowering vine with birds surrounded by elaborate flowers and vines, over a landscape with willow tree, animals, snake, and fruit trees, 24 1/2" x 22". For similar examples, see Joan Stephens collection, Sothebys, January 1997, Lot 2098 and A Gallery of American Samplers , fig. 78, and Girlhood Embroidery by Ring, fig. 442 and 443.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2006-09-23