$5,333
Two Needlework Samplers, executed by Sally Wilder, Leominster, Massachusetts, 1816, and c. 1810, the first a pictorial sampler stitched with silk threads on a gauze ground, centered with an oval reserve with alphabets and a pious verse over a scene with a lady, with painted paper head, seated beneath an overhanging tree, with sheaves of grain over the inscription: "Wrought by Sally Wilder in her 14th year AD. 1816,"; surrounded by a flowering vine, (minor toning, fading, and light stains), 20 x 18 1/2, in original molded wood frame; together with an earlier undated sampler worked in silk threads on a linen ground with three series of alphabets over her name "Sally Wilder," flanked by diamonds and a geometric border, (toning, fading, minor stains), 8 3/8 x 7 3/4 in., in a later mahogany frame. Descent in the Wilder family, Leominster, Massachusetts. Note: Sally (Sarah) Wilder was the fifth of twelve children born to Peter Andrew Wilder and Sarah Joslyn of Leominster, Massachusetts. She was born February 10, 1803. She died at the age of twenty-five on February 22, 1828. Samplers by her two sisters Smilinda and Nancy, lots 569 and 571 are also offered here.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-11-05
