SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler American art pottery froebelblocks

froebelblocks

it's an elephant

the year of the snake--and what a beautiful thing

with terrific ears and super sweet drawn or painted on eyes

SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler American art pottery froebelblocks(Detail photos give a better sense of this one, tough to shoot through the glass.) I have tried but not been able to definitively place the Mary Richardson who completed this sampler in 1836 found in Maine and I presume American despite based on what I take for homespun linen, but I am not an expert. In any case wonderfully jam packed with alphabet and imagery and personal information and religious verse that I take as emblematic of the second Great