Fine and Rare School Girl Needlework Sampler, Wrought by Elizabeth Eckfeldt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dated 1798
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January 23, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
School Girl Needlework Sampler
Wrought by Elizabeth Eckfeldt
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dated 1798
Worked in silk and wool threads on a linen ground, depicting a castle-like building flanked by willow trees, butterflies and birds with ladies, gentleman, and rabbits on a stepped terrace lawn above the stitched words Elizabeth Eckfeldts Work Done in the 10th Year of her Age April 18th 1798, all within an undulating floral border.
17 1/2 by 21 1/2 in.
M. Finkel & Daughter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 21, 2005, sale 8053, lot 919.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 21, 2005, sale 8053, lot 919.
M. Finkel & Daughter, Samplings, Vol VII, (Philadelphia, PA: 1995), p. 15;
For further discussion on related samplers, see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II, New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1993, fig. 390, p. 366
For further discussion on related samplers, see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II, New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1993, fig. 390, p. 366
Betty Ring states that there is a group of Philadelphia samplers made between 1796 and 1830 that contain this unusual three dormer castle-like building on a stepped-terrace lawn. Nevertheless, the following lot 341 in this sale is of a needlework made much earlier in the year 1789 by Ann Heyt, which contains a similar stepped terrace and three-dormer building.
The maker of this needlework sampler, Elizabeth Eckfeldt, was born circa 1788 in Philadelphia; the sixth child of Jacob and Elizabeth Eckfeldt. She married John Anderson on March 17, 1805.
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