SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) antique puzzle box gorgeous old perfectly aged paint

gorgeous old perfectly aged paint

making me think she may be a fertility figure

4 1/2” x 3 1/4” x 1 13/16” t

or one technology

I believe it is Mexican

SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) antique puzzle box gorgeous old perfectly aged paintSpotting 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