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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1784
Worked in green, brown, yellow and white silk threads on a linen ground in five registers of cross, satin and queen's stitched alphabet banding, separated by sawtooth, irish chain and diamond registers, above a verse inscribed, "Mary....born December 16 1768....worked... 1784," over a central flowering plant flanked by baskets, parrots and interlocking hearts, the whole enclosed by two vertical registers of scrolling flowers--21½in x 17½in.
PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1784
Worked in green, brown, yellow and white silk threads on a linen ground in five registers of cross, satin and queen's stitched alphabet banding, separated by sawtooth, irish chain and diamond registers, above a verse inscribed, "Mary....born December 16 1768....worked... 1784," over a central flowering plant flanked by baskets, parrots and interlocking hearts, the whole enclosed by two vertical registers of scrolling flowers--21½in x 17½in.