SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way brown pottery pitcher I find this so beautiful

I find this so beautiful just as an object

best of all

and one I think I would never tire of looking at

not so much to remember the drawing as to remember how to properly dress a deer

but not shedding

SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way brown pottery pitcher I find this so beautifulI'm a sucker for a super naive antique sampler, and really really love the combination of very naive and very aspirational; no small thing to attempt letters as fancy as many of these and, really, even more of a feat to manage a whole stretch of them backwards! I know from the seller I purchased this from that it came from Pennsylvania, c. mid 19th century I believe. The ground is very loosely woven, with unfinished edges but the embroidered borders