The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper folk art cross The color on these is

The color on these is fantastic

12 5/8" x 8 7/16"

Pure pleasure

7 1/4"w  x 7 1/2" t and in very good condition

I believe likely French

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper folk art cross The color on these isMy 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