SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) carved car I have found some examples

I have found some examples with the same sort of carved wooden base that were drinking cups

Color richer and black bolder in person

wonderful gestures

circa 1960

6 3/8 w x 5 15/16 t x 1” d at hooks

SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) carved car I have found some examplesSpotting this as I walked into an antiques show in central Mass last weekend set my heart racing and made me swoon. I love a darning sampler, and this is an early one, late 1700s or early 1800s would be my guess. Most of the early ones one sees are Dutch, with the complexly patterned darning samples most typically organized in an orderly, linear sort of composition; those are gorgeous, but to my eye this more freeform one is even more beautiful feels