Needlework Sampler by Polly Phippen , 1783, Salem, MA

Worked in silk and twisted silk threads with crinkled silk floss on linen i

Inscribed:

NO TIS IN VAIN TO SEEK FOR/BLISS FOR BLISS CAN NEER BE

FOUND TILL WE ARRIVE WHERE

JESUS IS AND TREAD ON HEAVNLY

GROUND. THERES NOTHING/ROUND THESE PAINTED SKIES NOR

ROUND THE DUSTY CLOD NOTHING

MY SOUL THAT WORTH THY JOY

OR LOVELY AS THY GOD Polly Phippen

HER SAMPLER. 17

WROUGHT 1783. IN

THE 14.YEAR.OF

HER AGE.

 

Property of the Philadelphia Museum of Art , Sotheby's , NYC, 25 - 26 January 2013

Date: 1783