Intricate Canivet or Nun cut Cutwork, with decorations on both sides
- 1780
1780. A 4.25" by 2.75" intricate and delicate cutwork presumably from France, created by nuns in the 1780s or 1790s. Note the razor slits and pinprick at base. Watercolor decoration with AB or NB seated on a green grass with flowers above. The reverse has the Eye of Providence above a Flaming Heart atop the landscape. Intended to foster good will.