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Lot 2361
Antique Needlework Sampler, American
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Worked in multi-color silk threads on linen, with six alpha- numeric rows above a cartouche containing makers name, age, and date, "Emma C Ritter / Aged 8 years / 1844," and motifs to include floral and fruit filled baskets, a bird, tree, and flower blooms, presented under glass in a cove molded frame with gilt liner.

Frame dimensions 17.25 x 15.5 in.

Private Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia

Areas of looseness and loss to ground; small hole to lower right; some gilt loss. Not examined out-of-frame.