June 20, 2024: Premier Americana - Day Two: Lighting, Silver, Textiles & Ceramics
Thu, Jun 20, 2024 09:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 883
MECKLENBURG CO. / UNION CO., NORTH CAROLINA PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for
$3,900
Sold Price includes BP
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $10 |
| $200 | $25 |
| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $30,000 | $2,500 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
MECKLENBURG CO. / UNION CO., NORTH CAROLINA PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, ten alphabet rows segmented by horizontal bands of decorative stitching with "MUH" initials at the end of the sixth row, below signed "Wrought By Margaret U Hous / ton in the yr 1844 Born APrile [sic] / The 25 AD 1828 Her Sampler", top edge with embroidered two handled baskets holding flowers, bottom edge depicting a village scene along a green lawn, featuring a church, a large building possibly being a school, and a two-story house, alternating with two tall trees, fences, and flowers, two side edges having embroidered scrolling flower vine border. Unframed, previously cut down and laid down along top and bottom edges. Dated 1844. 16" x 28".
Catalogue Note: The maker is identified as Margaret U. Houston, who was born April 25, 1828 in North Carolina, likely in Union Co. or Mecklenburg Co., to parents James "40-Foot Jim" Houston (1775-1846) and Margaret Forbes (1788-1863). On December 17th, 1846, Margaret married William Pierson Houston (1825-1877), and they had at least one son, James Ambrose. The family appears to have lived in Mecklenburg Co., NC until their deaths. Margaret reportedly died in 1905 and is buried at the Mint Hill Cemetery in Mint Hill, NC. For excerpts from the Houston Family Bible with marriage, birth, and death records, see North Carolina Digital Collections, local call number 400.1.1.2479.
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) recorded in their Object Database, photo no. S-13341, an 1835 sampler by Mary J. McKee, completed in neighboring Lincoln (now Gaston) Co., NC. That sampler features similar horizontal bands of decorative stitching between rows, including an unusual wide diagonal-striped band. It also has similar flower baskets and scrolling flower vine borders down the side edges.
Condition
Mostly in very good overall condition with a small hole to center of linen, thread with some expected light fugitive color, some losses to thread mostly on embroidered flowers in the side borders, side edges cut down causing fraying of linen in addition to the flower losses, remnants of glue and material to the backside along top and bottom edges.
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