A SILK ON SILK NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
A SILK ON SILK NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

WROUGHT BY JAIN STEWARD, DATED 1798

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A SILK ON SILK NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Wrought by Jain Steward, dated 1798
The rectangular form wrought in brown, green, cream, pink, yellow and blue silk threads in five horizontal registers comprised of two abstracted floral bands above a wrought verse When I Am Dead and Buried and All My Bones Are Rotten When This You See Remember Me Lest I Should Be Forgotten over a rectangular panel centering two birds above another panel wrought with This Made By Me Jain Steward 1798 within a meandering floral surround
18x9in. (sight)

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