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Lot 85
Sale 5449 - American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
May 3, 2022
6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$2,142
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Lot Description
Two Quaker needlework samplers Southeastern Pennsylvania, early 19th century
The first, inscribed "Elizabeth Jones," "Samuel Jones" and "Martha Jones," worked with floral sprigs enclosing reserve with alphabet, religious verse, silk threads on linen ground basted to original backing paper; together with an Ackworth School-patterned sampler, silk threads on linen ground basted to original paper backing, with alphabet inscribed on verso.
16 1/2 in. x 21 in. (larger), 9 1/2 in. x 8 in. (smaller, textile only)