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A Needlework Sampler
Estimate: $800-$1,200
Sold
$500
Live Auction
Selections of Fine Americana from the Millhiser Collection
Description
A Needlework Sampler
Worked by Elizabeth Roseberry, Probably Pennsylvania, Dated, "1789"
With alphabet and pious verse, above register of flowers and floral baskets, over a scene with house flanked by trees, flower pots, and birds, surrounded by meandering floral vine, signed, "Eliza. Roseberry," and dated, "1789" (?), at left and right above trees, housed in a curly maple frame.
Height 16 1/4 x width 18 3/4 inches (sight), height 19 1/4 x width 21 3/4 inches (frame).
Condition
stitched to a linen ground, and also tacked with brads along side edges (but mostly on linen backing, but in some areas through sampler ground), does not appeared to be glued; on original backboard; with some discoloration along borders, some general loss to color (with some colored threads appearing faint), and some scattered occasional foxing; some rusting to edges where brads tacked to board; frame is period
Provenance
Provenance:Purchased from Israel Sack, Inc., New York, New York, April 2, 1937,E. Ross (1894-1971) and Bessie S. Millhiser (1895-1987), Richmond, Virginia,Kenneth (1924-2021) and Katherine Millhiser (b. 1937), Piedmont, California.Note:This sampler may have been worked by Elizabeth Jane Roseberry (1775-1865), who was born in Rogersville, Center Township, Green County, Pennsylvania. She married William Crouse (1765-1820) of Carlisle, in 1790.