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Collection of Carole Wahler | January 29, 2025

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As a singular figure in the world of American pottery and early textiles, Dr. Wahler was a celebrated curator, collector, and scholar. Early Southern furniture including four MESDA documented items: VA William and Mary paneled trunk, VA Chippendale Cupboard, TN inlaid cherry chest of drawers and a TN cherry high chest, many early Southern painted furniture examples, Ten Ulysses Davis folk art carvings, textiles to include a rare Asheville sampler dated 1824, quilt dated1861, rare Southern salt glaze and redware pottery examples to include TN, AL and NC. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Framed American Needlework Picture, 'The Gossips'
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Framed American Needlework Picture, 'The Gossips'

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20th century, fabric depiction of two seated ladies, sight 11-1/8 x 9 in.; framed, 15-1/2 x 13-1/4 in.

Provenance: Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

Note: A similar design was pictured in the Maine Antique Digest, March 1994 (29-D, David Schorsch Ad). The caption notes that a "nearly identical design appears on a quilt by Eunice W. Cook of Vermont which is illustrated in Erwin O. Christensen, The Index of American Designs, (New York, 1950), pg. 103, fig. 211, and C. Kurt Dewhurst, Betty MacDowell and Marsha MacDowell, Artists in Aprons, Women Folk Artists, Folk Art by American Women, (New York, 1979), p. 48, fig 27." 

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Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

not examined out of frame, minimal wear; frame with wear and abrasions, crackle

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