Needlework Sampler

Description:

Needlework Sampler, "Rebecca Phippen's Sampler Aged 12 Salem Oct 19th 1820," stitched with silk threads on a linen ground, with a pious verse over sawtooth bordered alphabets and a large basket of flowers flanked by pine trees and cornucopias issuing flowering vines, (toning, fading),21 1/2 x 21 1/2 in., in a later mitered wood frame.

Note: Rebecca Phippen was born February 29, 1808, in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Estimate $500-700

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