The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase Signed along the lower right

Signed along the lower right edge of the mermaid

which suggests he or she was pretty proud of it

in pretty much perfect shape

including one dated 1886

Looks to me like just one small iron nail--with nice bleed around it--securing the two parts together

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase Signed along the lower rightMy 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