Sampler with an acrostic reading "Send Your Accounts"

Sampler with an acrostic reading "Send Your Accounts"

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This unusual sampler provided the maker with the opportunity to practice her skill at lettering in cross stitch, albeit with a limited number of alphabetical characters. But the reason behind the choice of an acrostic puzzle, and the phrase "Send Your Accounts" is unknown.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sampler with an acrostic reading "Send Your Accounts"Sampler with an acrostic reading "Send Your Accounts"Sampler with an acrostic reading "Send Your Accounts"Sampler with an acrostic reading "Send Your Accounts"Sampler with an acrostic reading "Send Your Accounts"

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.