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WROUGHT BY MARY JENKINS, NEW YORK, DATED 1821
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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Wrought by Mary Jenkins, New York, dated 1821
Worked in green, pink, peach, taupe, blue, brown and yellow silk threads centering horizontal verse "EDUCATION/ Know then that lifes chief happiness or wo, From good or evil education, flow, And hence our future dispositions rise, The vice we practice, or the good we prize/ Mary Jenkins aged 11 years New York/ 1821" surrounded by a cross-stitched squirrel, stars, flower baskets, garlands, acorn, buds and floral sprigs, all enclosed in a rectangular border set with meandering flowering vine
17in. square
Wrought by Mary Jenkins, New York, dated 1821
Worked in green, pink, peach, taupe, blue, brown and yellow silk threads centering horizontal verse "EDUCATION/ Know then that lifes chief happiness or wo, From good or evil education, flow, And hence our future dispositions rise, The vice we practice, or the good we prize/ Mary Jenkins aged 11 years New York/ 1821" surrounded by a cross-stitched squirrel, stars, flower baskets, garlands, acorn, buds and floral sprigs, all enclosed in a rectangular border set with meandering flowering vine
17in. square