Quaker School Needlework Sampler

Description:

Quaker School Needlework Sampler, "Mary Knight 1819," Burlington County, New Jersey, wrought with silk threads on a linen ground stitched with a rosebud and leaf stem vine surrounding a pious verse flanked by stylized man and woman Indian figures, and a pair of doves and assorted potted flowers, bowls of fruit, and geometric floral devices, (toning, fading),17 x 19 in., in a period ripple-carved frame.

Literature: See Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers, Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993, vol. 2, p. 478. The distinctive border on this sampler is the same border as pictured in Ring's book. Ring writes, "...the most consistent identifiable motif of the Burlington County Quaker samplers is a rose-vine border in which a leaf tendril on one side and a rosebud stem on the other give the appearance of a double vine."
Estimate $1,000-1,500

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