SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler American art pottery Dated (twice) on the interior

Dated (twice) on the interior

it's an elephant

froebelblocks

with terrific ears and super sweet drawn or painted on eyes

whether documenting or foreshadowing their fate I am not sure

SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler American art pottery Dated (twice) on the interior(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