Rare Charleston pictorial embroidery by Ann Custer circa 1800
depicting standing young women and gentlemen gazing at miniature portraits of relatives within wooded landscape, in oval format with painted silk ground worked with silk thread.
H20 1/2" W16 1/2"

Provenance : Ann Custer
Frederick and Ann (nee Custer) Naser (Charleston cabinetmaker)
John McMillan and Martha Eliza Naser Walton, Charleston, South Carolina
Cornelia Sophia Walton, Charleston, South Carolina
Henry D. and Lily Walton, Columbus, Georgia
Duncan M. and Elizabeth Phillips Snider, Columbus, Georgia
Albert Phillips and Wilton Bowen Reichert, Macon, Georgia
Robert and Dale Reichert, Macon, Georgia

Literature: Laurens, Henry. THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS. Columbia: Published for the South Carolina Historical Society by the University of South Carolina Press, 1963.

Burton, E. Milby. CHARLESTON FURNITURE, 1700-1825. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1963. pp.109

Other Notes: Worked by Ann Custer, daughter of James Custer, South Carolina, who married Charleston cabinetmaker Frederick Naser. Mr. Custer is referred to directly in a letter from Henry Laurens, dated 13 December 1776 with reference to the Izard plantation, as well as other regular correspondence.