Multi-color silk worked on fine linen depicting a bouquet filled basket surmounted by a butterfly and bird, with pious verse and manor home; the sampler maker, Elizabeth Moore Allen, has stitched her name, age, and year in bottom panel to read "aged 11 years, 1833." Housed in period tiger eye maple frame with gilt liner.

SS 17 x 12 in.; 21.5 x 16.5 in.

The Estate of Georgia Carroll Kyser, Chapel Hill, NC

With loss to outer border edge and overall; gilt loss to frame liner. Not examined out of frame.

$200 - 400