$237
Two Unframed Needlework Samplers, America, early 19th century, worked in silk threads on a linen ground, "Hannah Ment Zers Sampler Wrought in 1836," with a flowering vine surrounding rows of alphabets, family monograms, verses on friendship and remembrance, an urn of flowers, and flower blossoms, (toning, stains), 17 x 16 3/4; the second is unfinished and is stitched with rows of alphabets over a pencil sketch of a house and the name "Mary," "Mar," and "M.J.D. 1821," 11 3/4 x 8 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-03-07