three-framed-british-samplers
Lot 1496
Three Framed British Samplers
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first with detached floral clusters and swags embroidered on thin foundation fabric, surrounding lines of alphanumeric characters above a pious verse, the lower central basket of flowers and strawberries above the line "wrought by Charlana Morse July 6 1815", framed (framed dimensions 24.5 x 24.5 in.) (fading to most thread colors; discoloration to ground; small holes to foundation; loss to some threads; not examined out of frame); the second Scottish, signed Elizabeth Baxter, 1836, with alphabet, numbers, genealogical names and initials, and pious verses all above floral and avian motifs surrounding a central tree of life with figures of Adam and Eve, framed, (framed dimensions 9 x 13.25 in.) (discoloration to foundation fabric; some holes and loss to foundation fabric; not examined out of frame); the third by Hannah Carew Windle, with lines of multicolored alphanumeric characters above a pious verse within simple borders, signed and dated to lower center, framed (framed dimensions 12.5 x 13.75 in.) (discoloration, holes, and loss to foundation fabric; not examined out of frame).