The Chase-Bacon Needlework Family Record Sampler, Mary D. Chase Portland, Maine, dated 1823

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

bidding is closed

Description

Mary D. Chase
Silk thread and chenille on linen with silk chenille, paint and ink on appliqued silk
height 22 in.; width 17 1/2 in.

Wrought in brightly-colored silk thread and chenille on linen with silk chenille, paint and ink on aplliqued silk.

Provenance

The satin panel is painted with a depiction of the Jacob Chase house in North Yarmouth, Maine. It has descended in the family of the stitcher to the present owner, preserved in a sea chest belonging to Abbie Buxton Oakes, the sea-faring wife of Captain Charles Oakes- member of an old sea-faring family descended from Nathan Oakes (1728-1781) of Yarmouth, Maine.

Literature

The needlework is illustrated and discussed in, Captain Charles C. and Abby B. Oakes, Beckets and Hinges: Sea Tales of Old North Yarmouth, Maine, edited and illustrated by Arnold H. Sturtevant, 2010, pp. 13-14.

Catalogue Note

Mary D. Chase completed the sampler in two steps: step one no later than 1820 at the birth of Frances; step two, circa 1823, when the last child, Henry was added in different thread.

The District of Maine was a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when it became the twenty-third state. Until 1832, the capital was Portland, a thriving seaport city created by separation from Falmouth in 1786. By 1810, Portland supported thirty schools in addition to Portland Academy; (12) yet the teachers responsible for Portland's distinctive samplers and silk embroideries remain unknown. For further information see, Betty Ring, American Needlework Treasures, NY (E.P. Dutton), 1987, p.16.