HIGHLIGHTS

Booth at a show in historic Old Newcastle, Delaware

Extremely rare paneled chimney breast from Chester County, Pa. Retaining its original Prussian blue paint

Jacobean court cupboard, English, CA. 1640

Martha Ensey, 1813

Attributed to John McLeod's Eastern Academy in the Navy Yard area of Washington DC

This is probably the most significant piece I have ever had the priviledge to offer. This sampler belongs to a group of 5 related works created in Washington D.C. known as the

“Navy Yard” samplers. One related work also completed in 1813 is in the collection of the DAR. Sight measures 22 inches tall and 17 3/4 wide, framed measures 26 tall and 21 1/2 wide.

Provenance:

Illustrated in American Samplers and Needlework Pictures in the DAR Museum Part II: 1806-1840 (ANTIQUES, April 1975) by Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett

Illustrated in American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring (1987) p. 50, fig. 84 by Betty Ring

Illustrated in Columbia’s Daughters: Girlhood Embroidery from the District of Columbia (2012) p. 179, fig 9-9 by Gloria Seaman Allen

Illustrated in "To all Classes of the Community”: John McLeod’s Schools and the Washington Navy Yard and Capitol Hill Samplers (2024) figs. 4 & 20 by Jenny Garwood Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts Vol. 45

Exhibited: American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art

Sotheby’s: S/O Ring, January 22, 2012

Collection of Betty Ring

Sold to Colonial Williamsburg