American framed needle work sampler by Seraphina Learned (c. 1800's) Ceramic Tableware 16” Seat Height

16” Seat Height

Native American splint ash basket with carved and bent fixed loop handle which has been flattened at the apex

and cast with an eagle carrying a laurel branch in its beak

The foot of the caddy has a narrow flair and both the oval body of the caddy and the oval lid top are seam soldered

Luminous linocut landscape with flowers in the foreground

American framed needle work sampler by Seraphina Learned (c. 1800's) Ceramic Tableware 16” Seat HeightAmerican sampler of silk floss on linen with a modest zig zag border framing an uppercase letter alphabet, followed by a cursive alphabet, a lower case alphabet, and the numerals one thru nine. The makers name and birth date are given as: Seraphina Learned, born Sept. 30. 1805, preceded by a large upper case letters, A B C D. The lower third of the sampler is given over to a basket of flowers flanked by trailing strawberries. The work has an archival