Rare silk embroidered picture: the Wise Men of the East offering their gifts to our Saviour, signed Jane Carmichael, probably Lydia Royce's School, Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1820

Embroidered and painted on silk with silk, chenille, silver metallic thread, sequins and beads; the glass mat inscribed and signed The Wise Men of the East Offering Gifts to Our Saviour. Jane Carmichael.

In the original eglomise black glass mat, in the original gilded split baluster frame.
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A closely related example, entitled "Wisdom Directing Innocence to the Temple of Virtue," is in the M. and M. Karolik Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is illustrated and discussed in Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, volume I, p. 215, fig. 249.