November 21, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day Two Featuring The Benny Long Collection
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BRITISH PICTORIAL DARNING NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen gauze with original pencil tracings, completed in darning stitches, depicting a central bouquet of flowers in a chinoiserie vase that sits on a square-top pedestal or table, flanked by signature of "Mary / Bird" as well as two tall trees, each having a vine of ivy wrapped around the trunk, a bird perched on a branch, and another bird flying above, the foreground featuring a length of baluster fencing with two birds perched, each lower corner with four panes of various patterned stitching. Housed under glass in a later gilt-molded frame. Late 18th/early 19th century. 13 7/8" x 16 3/4" sight, 17" x 19 7/8" OA.
Literature: For a dated 1776 English darning sampler by Maria Hill, which features a chinoiserie vase of flowers and similarly paned corners of stitching, see Winter Associates, Plainville, CT, 6/24/2013, lot 73.
Very good visual condition with some toning and discoloration to linen, some scattered tiny and small holes most notably along edges probably from original tacks, some thread with fading / typical fugitive color, some losses to thread in lower proper left corner, frame with some wear, surface scratches, flakes, and chips. Not examined out of frame.
From the collection of the late Carol H. Forrer, Northville, MI.
Purchased from Matthew and Elisabeth Sharpe, The Spring Mill Antique Shop, Conshohocken, PA, 4/17/1976.
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