SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns shadow puppet with snake keeping the tiny ball from

keeping the tiny ball from being lost if carrying it around

Clipped corners and a bit unevenly cut as evident

7 1/2" x 4 1/2 x 6 1/8" t

Pictured last is the dated companion drawing mentioned above

SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns shadow puppet with snake keeping the tiny ball fromI paid close to what I'm asking on this one, which is sometimes the case there are things I just need to become the steward of for a bit. How to resist these tiny tiny dogs? Or that tiny yellow bird atop its tiny tree? I could not. The scale of it makes me think of love tokens and early handmade rewards of merit, and indeed this is stitched to a paper backing, which looks to me to bear simply the word "Dear" in ink. That's what I see, anyway. Silk