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Rare PA Lititz Moravian Girl's School Needlework,

ca. 1824, silk, chenille, crepe, ribbon, paint, and ink on silk; depicting family grieving at gravesite, with angel floating above; church in the distance, and chenille worked rocks; tombstone inscribed "Memory / of my / Sister / Mary Jane Annan," "pictured in Ring, "Girlhood Embroidery, Volume II, figure 502, page 448. Housed in gilt molded frame. SS 21" x 20.75"; DOA 27" x 26.75" Minor shattering to silk, tear to lower right base outside of image field
From a private North Carolina Collection.

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