Antique Framed Needlework on Linen with Towers of Flowers and Steamboat, Initialed LAO kitchen box and I'm always especially happy

and I'm always especially happy to find the colored ones

and who doesn't need a strongman around

And indeed it would have been--traditionally used in a wedding ceremony

but the kindly looking donkey upon which he is perched seems much more interested in his little dog friend than in turning around to help

3 1/2” t x

Antique Framed Needlework on Linen with Towers of Flowers and Steamboat, Initialed LAO kitchen box and I'm always especially happyThis one I found near impossible to photograph well through the glass, so please forgive the poor quality of the images, shot in both natural and artificial light, which do it no justice. I believe it is safe to categorize this one as a sampler, with the LAO who initialed it clearly practicing her needlepoint skills across three vertical spans of what I read as towers of flowers, rising from the three urns opening up along the bottom. And then this