Catherine Bailey’s Pictorial Sampler, 1840

Price: 2500

Sold by Bodenheimer-Mayer House

Catherinbe Bailey stitched this sampler in 1840. It isa done on linen with green, blue, pink and brown silk thread. It features a farm house and yard with rabbits, geese, hens, a turkey and dog surrounded by flower vine border. it is 14 7/8" x 23" by sight and 16 1/2" x 24 1/2" framed. There are no readily visible tears or missing stitches. It has not been examined outsider the frame. An attached note suggests it may have descended through the King family of New Jersey, from there through Southern Bell Antiques, Dayton, Ohio, to Lucy Hostermann, Circleville, Ohio in 1977. Provenance is available $2500