SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) antique puzzle box making me think she may

making me think she may be a fertility figure

A complete capital letter alphabet inside

I believe it is Mexican

Overall: 14" x 8 1/2"

W Turner painting

SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) antique puzzle box making me think she maySpotting this as I walked into an antiques show in central Mass last weekend set my heart racing and made me swoon. I love a darning sampler, and this is an early one, late 1700s or early 1800s would be my guess. Most of the early ones one sees are Dutch, with the complexly patterned darning samples most typically organized in an orderly, linear sort of composition; those are gorgeous, but to my eye this more freeform one is even more beautiful feels