FINE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, Ann Amelia Matilda Borden, Pennsylvania dated 1839

Estimate

15,000 - 50,000 USD

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Description

FINE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Pennsylvania
Approximately 16 ½ in. by 16 in.
Dated 1839

Worked with bands of alphabets above a verse, below the figure of a standing lady beside a basket of flowers, within wool and silk floral borders, signed Ann Amelia Matilda Borden was born Jan 1 year 1825, mark'd this in 1839.

Provenance

Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection of American Samplers, January 31, 1981, Sale 4531Y, lot 106

Exhibited

New York, The American Folk Art Museum, November 1978, item 117.