SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler American art pottery this and the two others

this and the two others I have are superior to any others I have seen

but am not completely sure of this one

Kelly was an artist in residence at Kilkenny Design Studio

I am guessing she was African American

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

SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler American art pottery this and the two others(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