Needlework Sampler

Description:

Needlework Sampler, probably New England, late 18th/early 19th century, worked in silk threads on a linen ground, with a central panel depicting a scene with a giraffe, peacock, and frolicking dogs in a landscape with trees, flowers, butterflies, and birds, surrounded by a meandering flowering vine and flying insects, (imperfections),24 x 22 in., in a later mahogany veneer frame.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

Wear , toning and losses. Several scattered holes from small to 1 in. dia.; stitch losses mainly to upper alphabet/inscription register where all inscriptions are indistinct, most of the stitches are gone, allover toning with darker toning in upper register area, some fading to thread color.

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