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Lot 318
Antique Framed British Needlework Sampler, Ann Neil
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 18th to early 19th century, worked in silk threads on linen ground, central field with prayer above maker's name and age, "Ann Neil Aged 9 Years", and ground with symmetrically stitched motifs to include trees, fruit, figurals, and flowers, all within a floral border, housed in a period bird's eye maple frame. With an early and very brittle illegible document to reverse.

SS 18 x 13 in.; DOA 22.25 x 17.75 in.

Private Collection, Pinehurst, North Carolina

With scattered holes; staining; with some tears and holes from tacking to board. Not examined out of frame.