Lot 11
A Needlework Sampler
Sale 1319 - Selections of Fine Americana from the Millhiser Collection
Jan 27, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / New York
Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Lot Description
A Needlework Sampler
Worked by Elizabeth Roseberry, Probably Pennsylvania, Dated, "1789"
With alphabet and pious verse, above register of flowers and floral baskets, over a scene with house flanked by trees, flower pots, and birds, surrounded by meandering floral vine, signed, "Eliza. Roseberry," and dated, "1789" (?), at left and right above trees, housed in a curly maple frame.
Height 16 1/4 x width 18 3/4 inches (sight), height 19 1/4 x width 21 3/4 inches (frame).
Height 16 1/4 x width 18 3/4 inches (sight), height 19 1/4 x width 21 3/4 inches (frame).
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
Provenance:
Purchased from Israel Sack, Inc., New York, New York, April 2, 1937,
E. Ross (1894-1971) and Bessie S. Millhiser (1895-1987), Richmond, Virginia,
Kenneth (1924-2021) and Katherine Millhiser (b. 1937), Piedmont, California.
Note:
This sampler may have been worked by Elizabeth Jane Roseberry (1775-1865), who was born in Rogersville, Center Township, Green County, Pennsylvania. She married William Crouse (1765-1820) of Carlisle, in 1790.
Purchased from Israel Sack, Inc., New York, New York, April 2, 1937,
E. Ross (1894-1971) and Bessie S. Millhiser (1895-1987), Richmond, Virginia,
Kenneth (1924-2021) and Katherine Millhiser (b. 1937), Piedmont, California.
Note:
This sampler may have been worked by Elizabeth Jane Roseberry (1775-1865), who was born in Rogersville, Center Township, Green County, Pennsylvania. She married William Crouse (1765-1820) of Carlisle, in 1790.
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