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132 Pictorial Needlework Petticoat Border with Figures in a Landscape, America, 18th century, crewel embroidered panel worked in wool yarns on a fine linen ground, depicting a romantic couple strolling in a hilly landscape with flowers, butterflies, a stag, a duck, and a horse, 8 x 37 1/2 in., mounted in a contemporary molded wood frame. $8,000-12,000
133 Needlework Sampler, “Nabby Fowler,” reportedly Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, c. 1805, stitched with silk threads on a linsey-woolsey ground, depicting a sawtooth border surrounding six rows of alphabets above a pious verse over the name “Nabby Fowler” stitched in an oval wreath, surrounded by an undulating flowering vine and a basket of flowers, (imperfections), 17 x 14 1/4 in., in a later frame. $2,500-3,500
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134 Framed Silk Needlework Memorial, possibly School of Abby Wright, South Hadley, Massachusetts, c. 1805, stitched with silk threads on a silk ground with watercolor painted details and background sky, depicting a tree-lined landscape with a woman holding a basket of flowers mourning beside a monument with the initials “WE/R/TE/R” stitched in an oval reserve, under a black reverse-painted glass oval foremat, oval 14 x 11 1/2 in., in a period molded and carved wood frame with molded giltwood liner. Note: A penciled inscription on the backing panel is inscribed “Abby Wright School 1806/ Hady [sic] School.” $2,000-3,000
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