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Premier Auction - Session II - February 4, 2023

Sat, Feb 4, 2023 09:00AM EST
Lot 921

Rare Washington Dated Sampler

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000

Bid Increments

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Washington, District of Columbia, 1809, signed "Charlotte Sutherland's Sampler Dec' 1809" flanking center pious verse over "Washington" within grapevine bordered cartouche, over gazebo with pair of birds and surrounded by floral urns, delicate berry and leaf border, silk on gauze ground, old backing with taped handwritten notes and exhibition label, 18 x 13-1/2 in.; probably original maple and gilt frame, 16 x 20 in.

Note: Exhibition: New York, The Museum of American Folk Art, November 1978. Illustrated in the catalog, item 60.

Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection of American Samplers, January 31, 1981, lot 116; Private Collection, Middleburg, Virginia

Condition

stitched to later muslin backed board, very small tacking holes along edges, discoloration due to fading and fugitive dyes to embroidered silks, overall toning to ground, frame with losses to gilt and wear

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