Lot 509
  • 509

Rare Needlework "White Dove" Sampler, Persis K. Dana, Deerfield, Massachusetts, dated 1795

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Height 11 3/4 in. by width 11 5/8 in.
Worked in silk on linen, a borderless example.

Provenance

Huber & Dana, July 3, 1988.

Literature

Ring, Betty, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, (Alfred A. Knopf: New York), 1993, vol. I, p. 147.

Condition

Some darkening of linen; new frame and glass.
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Catalogue Note

A borderless, balanced example was worked by Molly Billings in 1791. (See Antiques and the Arts Weekly, September 16, 1988 p. 152). Celendai Cram worked a pattern very similar to this one in 1805.  Persis Kibbe Dana (b. 1786) was the daughter of the Honorable Daniel Dana (1760-1839) and Persis Kibbe (1769-1835). Persis was born in Enfield, Connecticut. In 1797, her family moved to Guildhall, Vermont, where she married Thomas Carlisle (1781-1844). They lived in Lancaster, New Hampshire.