SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way brown pottery pitcher (As with most everything

(As with most everything

All appear to be French and a handful are still wrapped in paper

The San Jose mission was founded in 1797 by the Franciscan order--the 14th Spanish mission established in California--and

and all the more so with 70 or so years on it

which is just fun to do--I'd invent games to play with it

SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way brown pottery pitcher (As with most everythingI'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