The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase as there is some color

as there is some color loss around the side and bottom edges

which suggests he or she was pretty proud of it

was it "Mother" who made this and decided to sign it as such

though the photos make it look a little bluer than it is

Each combines a drawing and a poem

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase as there is some colorMy happiest surprise find of the week, at an antiques shop in southern Maine this is quite a marvelous and special feeling thing. The embroidery hand dyed silk thread on laid paper is an early one, early 19th century I believe, depicting my personal favorite Biblical scene, "the Visitation," when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, visits her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist. The scene is wonderfully, tenderly depicted here, the two