$3,600
Needlework Sampler, executed by Patty Ayer, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1792, worked in silk threads on a linen ground with rows of alphabets flanked by vertical strawberry vine and polychrome solid stitched borders above Patty's signature inscriptions "Haverhill May 12 Patty Ayer Born in the Year of our Lord 1782 This wrought in the 10 Year of age. ," over a pious verse, baskets of flowers, and a "Boston band" of hexagonal/hourglass-shaped designs, 17 1/2 x 13 1/4 in., unframed. Note: Patty Ayer was born May 12, 1782 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the child of Moses D. Ayer (1748-1820) and his first wife Martha "Patty" Kimball (c. 1849-1805). Patty Ayer died July 13, 1806, at the age of twenty-four.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-10-28
