Sold for:
$1,659
$1,659
Needlework Sampler, "May 29 Susanna Dawson Aged 9 years 1810," executed with silk threads on a gauze ground, with rows of alphabets and numerals, pious verses, and an assortment of birds, flowers, trees, and basket of fruit motifs, enclosed in a geometric flowering vine, 13 1/4 x 8 in. , in a later molded giltwood frame. Note: Susanna Dawson was reportedly a Quaker, born in 1800 in Kent, Maryland.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-12
