The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase Each combines a drawing and

Each combines a drawing and a poem

and are used by continually peeling back the paper visible at the tops

Signed along the lower right edge of the mermaid

which suggests he or she was pretty proud of it

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

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase Each combines a drawing andMy 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