Rare PA Lititz Moravian Girl's School Needlework,

Ca. 1824, silk, chenille, crepe, ribbon, paint, and ink on silk; depicting family grieving at gravesite, with angel floating above; church in the distance, and chenille worked rocks; tombstone inscribed "Memory / of my / Sister / Mary Jane Annan," "pictured in Ring, "Girlhood Embroidery, Volume II, figure 502, page 448. Housed in gilt molded frame.

SS 21" x 20.75"; DOA 27" x 26.75"

From a private North Carolina Collection.

Minor shattering to silk, tear to lower right base outside of image field

$10,000 - 15,000