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WROUGHT BY CATHERINE MILLER, PROBABLY ENGLISH, DATED 1791
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A SILK AND WOOL PICTORIAL SAMPLER ON LINEN
WROUGHT BY CATHERINE MILLER, PROBABLY ENGLISH, DATED 1791
inscribed not eat not taste not touch nor cast an eye upon the fruit of this fair tree and why why eates/ thou, not what Heaven ordaind For food or canst thou think that bad which Heaven call good/ be thou faithful/ unto death and I/ will give a crown of life and signed and dated Catherine Miller/ work done in the/ Year 1791
16 1/4 in. high, 20 1/4 in. wide
WROUGHT BY CATHERINE MILLER, PROBABLY ENGLISH, DATED 1791
inscribed not eat not taste not touch nor cast an eye upon the fruit of this fair tree and why why eates/ thou, not what Heaven ordaind For food or canst thou think that bad which Heaven call good/ be thou faithful/ unto death and I/ will give a crown of life and signed and dated Catherine Miller/ work done in the/ Year 1791
16 1/4 in. high, 20 1/4 in. wide
Provenance
Sold, Christie's, New York, 13 October 1984, lot 107
Sale room notice
Please note this lot will no longer be subject to a reserve.