- Maker
- Oates, R
- Date made
- 1767
- Origin
- PA (?) US
- Stitches
- Cross
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- Sampler has two panels. The first panel includes angels, birds, squirrels, flowers in baskets and a flower stem in a handled urn. One wide cross band of flowers including tulips and carnations and a row of crowns. Across the bottom a scene on both L and R sides with a man in Quaker style attire pointing towards a deer near a tree, in the center the Spies of Canaan bearing a pole with grapes between them. Reversing arcaded strawberry border all four sides.
- Inscription
- Time Darks the SKY Time Brings the Day / Time Glads the Heart Time passeth joy a Way / Time Builds a Kingdom Time over throws a nation / Time Writes a Story Of Its Desolation / Time Makes Men Rich and Time Makes Rich Men Poor / Time Has an end When Time shall be no More / (In the bottom section): B Y ro Oates / XIII Numbers 23 V / And they Came to the brook of Eshcol, and Cut down from thence a branch / With one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two Upon a Staff //
- Length Without Frame
- 31.5 cm
- Width Without Frame
- 30 cm
- Historical Owner
- Purchased
- Owner
- Private collector
- Owner Private
- Laurel Gabel
