Mary Law's 19th-Century Framed Needlework Sampler

Silk on linen, with wool, 19th century, worked primarily in cross stitch, with large central house surrounded by spot motifs including floral sprays, butterflies, birds, and a girl holding a flower, signed "Mary / Law / work" to upper center, with trailing berry and leaf border and ground filled in with white wool tent stitches, framed.

15.5 x 13.75 in. sight, 21.5 x 19.75 frame

From the Collection of Josephine Chapman Borthwick, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Loss to some stitches; frame without dust cover backing; not examined out of frame.