The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase and made all the better

and made all the better by careful crayon coloring in yellow and green on a number of the excellent illustrations

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

including one dated 1886

Each combines a drawing and a poem

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase and made all the betterMy 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