DUTCH DARNING SAMPLER, silk on fine linen gauze, featuring several cross-motif darns with various decorative patterns, alternating with white-on-white darns, center row with crown over "MCB" initials and a crown over "1791", all encompassed by a thin scrolling vine border. Housed under UV glass and conservation mounted in a gilt-molded frame. Lot includes a copy of M. Finkel & Daughter, "Samplings: XXV", 2004. Dated 1791. 13 7/8" x 13 7/8" sight, 16 3/4" x 16 3/4" OA. Excellent visual condition with light toning along edges, light fading and fugitive color to some thread, an approximate 1 1/2" L tear in upper right corner along right edge, frame with wear, some losses to gilt, and small chips to molding. Not examined out of frame. Published: M. Finkel & Daughter - Samplings: XXV, p. 32. Provenance: From the collection of Nick Routson, Phoenix, AZ.M. Finkel & Daughter (retains dealer label).Christie's, sale 9733, 11/10/2003, lot 393.Ex-Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria.Ex-collection of Emma-Henriette Schiff von Suvero, Vienna, Austria. Catalogue Note: Emma-Henriette (Reitzes) Schiff von Suvero (1873-1939) was a member of an important and wealthy Jewish family, who owned and lived in the Palais Reitzes in the center of Vienna. After the 1938 annexation of Austria by the Nazi German Reich, Emma-Henriette's art collection, which included textiles and porcelain, was officially inventoried in July of that year and valued at over 100,000 Reichmarks. She died of natural causes at the beginning of 1939, her nephew Erwin Reitzes attempted to export his aunt's collection, but was forced to sell it through the lawyer Dr. Alfons Bodart to the Kunstgewerbemuseum (now Museum fur Angewandte Kunst) in Vienna. It appears none of the collection was displayed at the museum, but rather kept in excellent storage conditions allowing the textiles to be perfectly preserved.