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Embroidery sampler
Date: 19th c.
Medium: embroidery on linen canvas
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Bequest of Agnes Hulburd Conger
Object number: 1981.9.260
DescriptionA small, rectangular embroidery sampler, worked in counted-cross stitch on a coarse linen ground. Motifs of sailboat, potted flowers and birds worked in multicolored threads. Composition enclosed by border of a berried vine (holly?). Ground fabric is hand-hemmed on all four sides. Text of "Don d'amitie/A mon amie,". Style of work greatly resembles those of #'s 1981.9.297 and 261, also from the Conger collection. Same provenance?
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